Editing Andrew Tridgell (section)

{{Short description|Australian computer programmer}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Andrew Tridgell
| honorific_suffix   = [[Medal of the Order of Australia|OAM]]
| image              = Andrew Tridgell.jpg
| caption            = Tridgell in 2006
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|02|28}}
| birth_place        = [[Sydney]], Australia
| occupation         = Programmer
| known_for          = [[rsync]], [[Samba software|Samba]], [[rzip]], [[ccache]], [[ArduPilot]]
| nationality        = Australian
| employer           = 
| other_names        = Tridge
}}
'''Andrew''' "'''Tridge'''" '''Tridgell''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (born 28 February 1967) is an Australian [[computer programmer]].  He is the author of and a contributor to the [[Samba (software)|Samba]] [[file server]], and co-inventor of the [[rsync]] algorithm.

He has analysed complex [[proprietary protocol]]s and algorithms, to allow compatible [[free and open source software]] implementations.