Who Created and Developed Ventoy?

Ventoy is an open-source multiboot USB utility created and primarily maintained by a software developer known online as longpanda (real name Hailong Sun). This article covers the origins of Ventoy, the identity of its creator, the breakthrough features longpanda introduced to bootable drive creation, and how the project continues to be maintained.

The Creator Behind the Project

Ventoy was officially launched in April 2020 by Chinese developer Hailong Sun, who works publicly under the GitHub handle longpanda. Before Ventoy gained massive popularity across Linux and Windows user communities, creating multi-boot flash drives often involved cumbersome disk formatting tools, complex scripting, or specialized bootloader configurations.

Operating primarily through GitHub and personal open-source channels, longpanda built Ventoy from the ground up to solve the friction of constant drive reformatting. To this day, longpanda remains the principal architect, core committer, and primary maintainer reviewing pull requests and shipping regular update releases.

How Longpanda Revolutionized Bootable USBs

Prior to Ventoy, standard tools like Rufus, UNetbootin, or Etcher required writing disk image contents directly over storage sectors, wiping existing drive contents each time a new operating system installer was needed.

Hailong Sun developed an alternative approach:

Maintenance and Open-Source Ecosystem

While thousands of system administrators, IT professionals, and enthusiasts use Ventoy daily, the software remains largely driven by longpanda's personal efforts. The developer accepts financial contributions via Open Collective and GitHub Sponsors to help support maintenance, bug fixes, hardware testing, and feature development.