Meet Fabrice Bellard: The French engineer whose code powers YouTube, Netflix and TikTok, yet he has spent 30 years quietly out of the spotlight |
Most people can name the founders of Apple, Microsoft, Meta or Tesla. Fabrice Bellard remains largely unknown outside programming circles despite creating software that helps power much of the modern internet. From the technology that processes online videos to the virtual machines underpinning cloud computing, Bellard’s creations sit deep beneath the internet’s surface, largely invisible…