Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System.
He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s as a member of the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and the X.Org Foundation.
He worked at Tektronix, Inc. in Wilsonville, Oregon designing X terminals and Unix workstations from 1983 until 1988.
He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology X Consortium from 1988 to 1992, developing the X Window System reference implementation and standards as the senior member of a small team.
[8] Packard left HP Labs to join SiFive in July 2019, working on free software for RISC-V-based processors, among other tasks.