Andrew Tridgell

Andrew Tridgell OAM
Tridgell in 2006
Born	(1967-02-28) 28 February 1967 (age 58) Sydney, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Other names	Tridge
Occupation	Programmer
Known for	rsync, Samba, rzip, ccache, ArduPilot

Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell OAM (born 28 February 1967) is an Australian computer programmer. He is the author of and a contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm.

He has analysed complex proprietary protocols and algorithms, to allow compatible free and open source software implementations.