Timo Sirainen

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|caption = Timo Sirainen at Sagrada Família

|spouse = Vilma Sirainen {{cite web |url=http://www.sirainen.fi/ |title = Timo Sirainen}}

|employer = Open-Xchange

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Timo Sirainen, born 1979, is a Finnish programmer also known under the handles "cras" and "tss". Sirainen is the original author of the IRC-client Irssi and the POP/IMAP server Dovecot. Sirainen lives in Helsinki, Finland.

In 2006, Sirainen began studying biotechnology at the University of Tampere.

He was formerly working for Rackspace Email & Apps{{cite web | url = http://www.rackspace.com/apps/blog/2009/02/creator-of-dovecot-joins-mailtrust/ | title = Creator of Dovecot Joins Mailtrust | work = Mailtrust's Blog | accessdate = 2009-02-09 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100827004004/http://www.rackspace.com/apps/blog/2009/02/creator-of-dovecot-joins-mailtrust/ | archivedate = 2010-08-27 }} (formerly Mailtrust), where he continued the development of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server.

Since May 2011 he runs his own company offering commercial support for Dovecot. In March 2015, the companies Dovecot Oy and Open-Xchange SA announced a merger.{{cite web|title=Open-Xchange and Dovecot announce merger to create world's leading open source messaging software provider|url=http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18|accessdate=18 June 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612013422/http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18|archivedate=12 June 2015}}

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