Tom Pepper (born August 24, 1975 in
Des Moines,
Iowa) is a computer programmer best known for his collaboration with
Justin Frankel on the invention of the
Gnutella peer-to-peer system. He and Frankel co-founded
Nullsoft, whose most popular program is
Winamp, which was sold to
AOL in May 1999. Afterwards, Pepper worked inside of AOL as the manager of
SHOUTcast, an Internet
streaming audio service, and wrote the software along with Stephen "Tag" Loomis and Frankel, before leaving in October, 2004. Pepper then worked on development at RAZZ, Inc. He continues to collaborate with Frankel on independent projects like
Ninjam.