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	== Career ==		== Career ==

	After graduating with a degree in ] from the ], Lamb joined ] a social networking website for ] as Technical Architect<ref name="wired">{{cite web \| title=Playfire: The social network dedicated to gamers \| url=https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/09/start/network-gamer\|accessdate=17 August 2011 }}</ref>. After it was acquired in May 2012 he was a founding employee of fashion startup Thread.com participating in the ] ]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/2012-selected-highlights \| title=2012: Selected highlights }}</ref>. In 2015, Lamb left Thread to persue freelancing<ref>{{ cite web \| url=https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/2014-selected-highlights \| title=2014: Selected highlights }}</ref>. As a freelancer, Lamb has contributed to ], a fully free GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian that has received endorsement from the ]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed-gnu-linux-distributions-1 \| title=FSF adds PureOS to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions\|last=Robertson\|first=Donald\|date=2017-12-21\|website=www.fsf.org\|access-date=2018-10-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \| url=https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/12/24/0158200/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed-gnulinux-distributions \| title=× Open Source Operating Systems Linux FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions\|website=Slash Dot\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328144953/https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/12/24/0158200/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed-gnulinux-distributions\|archivedate=28 March 2018\|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref> that is shipped on the ] devices manufactured by ].		After graduating with a degree in ] from the ], Lamb joined ], a social networking website for ], as Technical Architect<ref name="wired">{{cite web \| title=Playfire: The social network dedicated to gamers \| url=https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/09/start/network-gamer\|accessdate=17 August 2011 }}</ref>. After it was acquired in May 2012 he was a founding employee of fashion startup Thread.com participating in the ] ]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/2012-selected-highlights \| title=2012: Selected highlights }}</ref>. In 2015, Lamb left Thread to persue freelancing<ref>{{ cite web \| url=https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/2014-selected-highlights \| title=2014: Selected highlights }}</ref>. As a freelancer, Lamb has contributed to ], a fully free GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian that has received endorsement from the ]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed-gnu-linux-distributions-1 \| title=FSF adds PureOS to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions\|last=Robertson\|first=Donald\|date=2017-12-21\|website=www.fsf.org\|access-date=2018-10-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \| url=https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/12/24/0158200/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed-gnulinux-distributions \| title=× Open Source Operating Systems Linux FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions\|website=Slash Dot\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328144953/https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/12/24/0158200/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed-gnulinux-distributions\|archivedate=28 March 2018\|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref> that is shipped on the ] devices manufactured by ].

	=== Debian ===		=== Debian ===

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For the Australian footballer, see Chris Lamb.

Chris Lamb
Born	Chris Lamb (1985-12-16) 16 December 1985 (age 39) United Kingdom
Nationality	English
Other names	lamby
Occupation	Software developer
Known for	Debian GNU/Linux, Reproducible builds
Website	chris-lamb.co.uk

Chris Lamb (lamby, born 16 December 1985) is an English free software developer and advocate. He held the position of Debian Project Leader from April 2017 until April 2019. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative and is a core developer in the Reproducible Builds project.

Career

After graduating with a degree in computer science from the University of Warwick, Lamb joined Playfire, a social networking website for video game players, as Technical Architect. After it was acquired in May 2012 he was a founding employee of fashion startup Thread.com participating in the Y Combinator seed accelerator. In 2015, Lamb left Thread to persue freelancing. As a freelancer, Lamb has contributed to PureOS, a fully free GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian that has received endorsement from the Free Software Foundation that is shipped on the Librem devices manufactured by Purism.

Debian

Succeeding Mehdi Dogguy, Lamb successfully ran for the position of Debian Project Leader in 2017 and 2018. He was re-elected in 2018 and after announcing he would not run for third term he was succeeded by Sam Hartmans in April 2019.

After contributing to the LilyPond packaging in December 2006, he became more involved in the Debian community and the project itself.. Early work in Debian revolved around contributing to the Debian Live and Debian Installer as well as the Javascript, X.org and Python packaging teams. In 2008, he became an official Debian Developer.

He is now part of the FTP Master team, responsible for legal and copyright issues as well as maintaining the state of packages and the archive, accepting and rejecting packages. Outside of these roles, he is a core contributor to the Lintian quality assurance tool and the Python packaging and quality assurance teams. He is also the author of many Debian-specific tools such as travis.debian.net, installation-birthday tools as well as the Debbugs Enhancement Suite Chrome browser extension. He is also a contributor to the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) initiative.

Reproducible builds

Lamb is a core contributor to the Reproducible builds project, a set of software practices that can ensure that no malicious flaws have been introduced during compilation processes. As part of this, he contributes to diffoscope and also operates the try.diffoscope.org web service.

In November 2016, Lamb was awarded a grant from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund his work in this area.. In November 2018, he oversaw the Reproducible Builds project joining the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Other

He also regularly contributes to the Tails operating system, Django web development framework and is also the author of a number of free and open-source tools such as ] bindings for the Shamir's Secret Sharing cryptographic algorithm, a Strava Chrome browser extension as well as a number of hacks such as a Sudoko solver implemented entirely within a PostScript/PDF document and a method of using strace to give the cp shell command a progress bar.

In 2018, due to licensing changes to several Redis Labs modules making them no longer free and open source, he forked versions from prior to the license change and now maintains changes to these modules under their original free licenses.