Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich (born 4 July 1961) is an American computer programmer and technology executive who created the JavaScript programming language and co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation. He grew up in Pittsburgh, in Gaithersburg, Maryland and in Palo Alto, received a bachelor degree in mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University and a master degree in 1985 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and began his career at Silicon Graphics. He started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995 and completed the first version of the language in ten days; it was first called Mocha, then LiveScript, and finally JavaScript. He later served as chief technical officer of the Mozilla Corporation and became cofounder and chief executive officer of the Brave browser.