Tom Pepper

Tom Pepper (born August 24, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a computer programmer best known for his collaboration with Justin Frankel on the invention of the Gnutella peer-to-peer system.  He and Frankel co-founded Nullsoft, whose most popular program is Winamp, which was sold to AOL in May 1999.  Afterwards, Pepper worked inside of AOL as the manager of SHOUTcast, an Internet streaming audio service, and wrote the software along with Stephen "Tag" Loomis and Frankel, before leaving in October, 2004. Pepper then worked on development at RAZZ, Inc. He continues to collaborate with Frankel on independent projects like Ninjam.

Pepper was the Chief Technology Officer of local food logistics startup FarmsReach prior to taking a position as the VP of Operations for Beats Music until its acquisition by Apple Inc. in May 2014.  Tom Pepper was the manager of site reliability engineering for Apple until early 2018.

See also

 WASTE
 Friend-to-friend (F2F)
 File sharing
 Peer-to-peer (P2P)
 Gnutella
 Nullsoft
 Justin Frankel

References

Category:Computer programmers
Category:People from Des Moines, Iowa
Category:Living people
Category:1975 births
Category:American chief technology officers