Simon Tatham

Simon Tatham is a British software engineer best known for creating PuTTY, an open-source SSH and Telnet client for Windows. PuTTY is one of the most widely used remote-login tools on the Windows platform, commonly employed for secure access to Unix and Linux systems. Tatham has worked extensively on network protocols, terminal emulation, and cryptography-related software, and his projects are recognized for being open-source, cross-platform, and stable.