Jesse Vincent

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Jesse Vincent (born June 21, 1976) is a computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for his work with the Perl programming language. He created the ticket-tracking system Request Tracker ("RT") and founded the company Best Practical Solutions.

He created RT while working at Wesleyan University in 1994. Graduating from the university in 1998,[http://www.wesleyan.edu/russian/studyabroad.html Russian/Study abroad], Wesleyan.edu. Jesse Vincent '98, last entry on page. Retrieved on 29 March 2012. Vincent founded Best Practical in 2001.{{cite web|url=http://androidopen.com/android2011/public/schedule/speaker/6865|title=Speaker: Jesse Vincent: Android Open - O'Reilly Conferences, October 09 - 11, 2011, San Francisco|work=androidopen.com|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=11 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811121255/http://androidopen.com/android2011/public/schedule/speaker/6865|url-status=dead}} He co-authored RT Essentials in 2005.{{cite book|title=RT Essentials: Jesse Vincent, Robert Spier, Dave Rolsky, Darren Chamberlain, Richard Foley: 9780596006686: Amazon.com: Books|isbn = 978-0596006686|last1 = Vincent|first1 = Jesse|last2 = Spier|first2 = Robert|last3 = Rolsky|first3 = Dave|last4 = Chamberlain|first4 = Darren|last5 = Foley|first5 = Richard|date = 2005-08-18}}

He is the founder and former project lead of K-9 Mail email app for Android (since acquired by Mozilla and rebranded as Thunderbird for Android).{{Cite web|url=https://k9mail.github.io/team.html|title=Team|access-date=2018-07-02|archive-date=2019-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125064749/https://k9mail.github.io/team.html|url-status=dead}}

In 2012 he became interested in the ergonomics of keyboards, having designed and built himself several designs.{{cite web|url=https://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/better-and-better-keyboards.html|title=Better and better keyboards|work=fsck.com|access-date=19 May 2023}} In 2014 he co-founded Keyboardio.

In 2021, he co-founded VaccinateCA, a community-run website for helping Americans find COVID vaccines.