Fabrice Bellard: The French engineer behind YouTube, Netflix, and TikTok's code

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

French engineer Fabrice Bellard created foundational code for YouTube, Netflix, and TikTok, yet remains largely unknown. His open-source projects FFmpeg and QEMU are critical for video processing and cloud computing, powering much of the modern internet infrastructure. Bellard also developed record-breaking algorithms for calculating pi and pioneered running Linux in a web browser, demonstrating consistent innovation.


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