qBittorrent was originally developed in March 2006 by Christophe Dumez,[REF] from the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard) in France.
It is currently developed by contributors worldwide,[REF] led by Sledgehammer999 from Greece, who became project maintainer in June 2013 [REF].