brendan eich

 

Brendan Eich's illustrious career has spanned more than three decades, during which time he has been linked with a variety of digital offerings that most people use on a daily basis, whether deliberately or unknowingly. He began his career as a systems engineer with Silicon Graphics, a high-end hardware and software manufacturer, before moving on to MicroUnity to write microkernel and digital signal processor code.

 

In April 1995, Eich was employed by Netscape, where he developed the computer language JavaScript, which, along with HTML and CSS, serves as the primary structure for the internet as we know it today.

 

By 1998, he had decided it was time to strike out on his own, and he co-founded the free, open-source software project Mozilla, serving as its principal digital architect until 2005, when he became the newly formed Mozilla Corporation's chief technology officer — and eventually CEO.

 

He departed from Mozilla after a fruitful stint there, during which he transformed the firm into a force to be reckoned with, and went on to start Brave, a privacy-focused web browser for which he was able to raise $2.5 million through various funding attempts. The startup published developer copies of their platform in January 2016, which got a lot of momentum due to its ability to remove advertisements and trackers. Furthermore.

 

With more individuals becoming aware of the many privacy-based value propositions offered by blockchain and crypto-enabled platforms, it stands to reason that in the coming year, more people will choose to embrace forward-thinking solutions like Eich's Brave browser. To put things in context, big data leaks affected a number of large companies in 2020, including Microsoft, Google, LG, Cisco, and UbiSoft, among many others. In this regard, hackers dumped a remarkable 36 billion records into the public domain throughout the course of the year.