Simon Tatham

Simon Tatham (born 3 May 1977)^[1] is a British computer programmer. He created and maintains PuTTY, a free software implementation of Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet for Microsoft Windows and Unix, along with an xterm terminal emulator. He is also the original author of Netwide Assembler (NASM),^[2] and maintains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Nintendo DS, Symbian S60, Unix (GTK; Android, MacOS), and Windows.

Simon Tatham
Born	(1977-05-03) 3 May 1977 (age 48)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Computer programmer
Employer	ARM Holdings[1]
Known for	PuTTY, NASM
Website	www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/

He attended the University of Cambridge, and currently works at ARM Holdings.

See also

• List of programmers
• List of computer scientists