Daniel Stenberg


Magnus Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish software developer. He received the 2017 Polhem Prize for his work on the cURL utility.
Stenberg was born and raised in Huddinge, a suburb south of Sweden's capital Stockholm. He created the utility which, after various name and license changes, became known as cURL which is available under the cURL License.
From 2013 to 2018, he worked for Mozilla. In February 2019, Stenberg joined wolfSSL to offer commercial support for cURL and to work on cURL as full-time as possible. He is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force, a member of the working groups for the HTTP/2 and QUIC network protocols, and contributed to several technical Requests for Comments.
In April 2023, he became a member of the Polhemsrådet, the Polhem Prize's committee.
In October 2025, he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences for his work in open-source software, specifically cURL. The citation states:
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