To clarify, a Russian programmer developed nginx. This goes back to the days when post Perestroika collapse Russia was barely entering the computer age. Russians, working on older, substandard systems, many of them purchased second hand, were having trouble keeping up with the rest of the world in the sphere of web hosting. Enter nginx - an amazingly compact, super eficient server-side OS enhancement to UNIX, the engine running a healthy percentage of the world's web hosting servers. The rest is history...