Technical Advisory Board

Facebook

Chris Mason

Chris Mason is a longtime contributor to the Linux kernel and maintainer of the Btrfs filesystem. He is currently a software engineer on Facebook’s kernel team and the chair of The Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board. Prior to joining Facebook, Chris worked as a kernel developer at SUSE, Oracle, and Fusion-io. He lives with his family in Rochester, New York.

Canonical

Christian Brauner

Christian Brauner is a senior software engineer at Canonical. He works mostly upstream on the Linux kernel maintaining various bits and pieces with a focus on security and containers.

Intel

Dan Williams

Dan Williams is a kernel developer in Intel’s Open Source Technology center. His primary role is enabling next generation storage technologies, like persistent memory. In his more than a decade-long history of contributing to the Linux kernel, he has also had the opportunity to work on embedded system-on-a-chip enabling, memory management, and other core functionality.

LWN.net

Jonathan Corbet

Jonathan got his first look at the BSD Unix source back in 1981, when an instructor at the University of Colorado let him “fix” the paging algorithm. He has been digging around inside every system he could get his hands on ever since, working on drivers for VAX, Sun, Ardent, and x86 systems on the way. He got his first Linux system in 1993, and has never looked back. Jon is the Co-founder and Executive Editor of Linux Weekly News.

Fellow

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as a Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment. He also works closely with Linux Foundation members and projects, and on key initiatives to advance Linux.

Greg created and maintains the Linux Driver Project. He is also currently the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of different subsystems that include USB, staging, driver core, tty, and sysfs, among others. Most recently, he was a Fellow at SUSE.

Greg is an adviser to Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab and a member of The Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board. He has delivered a variety of keynote addresses at developer and industry events, and has authored two books covering Linux device drivers and Linux kernel development.

Google

Kees Cook

Kees is a Software Engineer at Google.

Red Hat

Laura Abbott

Laura Abbott thinks kernels are really cool, even when they crash. She has previously worked at Qualcomm and Red Hat working on everything from low level memory management to maintaining the Fedora kernels. She is currently an engineer at Oxide Computer.

Microsoft

Sasha Levin

Sasha maintains the stable/LTS kernel trees and liblockdep. He is currently employed by Microsoft where he maintains the internal kernel tree for various products, maintain the upstream Hyper-V subsystem, support developers making the switch from Windows to Linux, and advise on various technical topics not directly related to the kernel.

VMware

Steven Rostedt

Steven Rostedt started working on the Linux kernel in 1998, when he was working on his Master’s in computer science. Since then, he has focused on making Linux kernel development into a career. His upstream work includes being one of the first main developers of the PREEMPT_RT patch set. His focus has been on making the Linux kernel into a more deterministic operating system, and he helps maintain the real-time part of the scheduler. Steven currently maintains the stable releases of the PREEMPT_RT patch set.

Steven also brought the PREEMPT_RT patch’s latency tracer into the kernel, using ideas from his own internal tracer, the end result became what is now called “ftrace.” Steven continues to be the main developer and maintainer of the tracing code of the Linux kernel.

Google

Ted Ts’o

Ted Ts’o graduated from MIT with a degree in computer science, after which he worked in MIT’s Information Systems department. During this time he was project leader of the Kerberos V5 team.

In 1994, Ted created the /dev/random Linux device node and the corresponding kernel driver, which was the first Linux kernel interface that provided high-quality cryptographic random numbers to user programs.

After MIT, Ted went to work for VA Linux Systems for two years. In 2001, he joined IBM, where he worked on improvements in the Linux kernel’s performance and scalability. After working on the real-time kernel at IBM, he joined The Linux Foundation for a two-year fellowship. Initially he served as Chief Platform Strategist before becoming Chief Technology Officer in 2008. Ted also served as Treasurer for USENIX until 2008, and has chaired the annual Linux Kernel Summit.

He is a Debian developer and has maintained several packages, mostly filesystem-related, including e2fsprogs, since 2003. He was a member of the Security Area Directorate for the Internet Engineering Task Force, and was one of the chairs for the IPsec working group. He was one of the founding board members for the Free Standards Group.

In 2010 Ted moved to Google.