Software engineer at Codethink, I also maintain a few open source projects such as GNOME OS and BuildStream.

First and foremost a hobbyist taking pleasure in day-to-day use and contributions to open source, Adrian is also a Senior Engineer working on behalf of Collabora on embedded systems and distributions, with a wide area of interest going from toolchains and programming languages, kernels, security, userspace tools, hardware such as printers (yes people still use those haha!) and many other topics.

Adrian has long worked on Linux plumbing, primarily focused on building carbonOS: a GNOME- and Flatpak-focused immutable OS. Recently he has become a more active contributor in the GNOME and systemd projects, and a contractor under the STF grant.

I initiated the Inspektor Gadget project in 2019 at Kinvolk. Now at Microsoft, I continue to work as a software engineer, co-maintaining Inspektor Gadget and contributing to other eBPF projects.

Research Engineer at SUSE since 2012

Aleksa Sarai is a core developer and maintainer of runc and umoci, contributor and maintainer of Open Container Initiative specifications, and a Linux kernel contributor. He works on the containers team at SUSE, maintaining various core parts of the lower levels of the containers stack and related software for both SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE; he is also committed to working in the open, and is a strong proponent of Free Software.

whoami?, I'm a father of two, I have compulsory need to integrate c application with python, this lead me to write pystemd. I'm an amateur cook but a professional drinker, and on my free time I also moonlight as a PE at meta

Ben Breard is a product manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and focuses on immutable operating systems. As a true believer in open source, he also enjoys evangelizing containers, systemd, Kubernetes, and Linux. Ben joined Red Hat in 2010 and currently works out of Frisco, Texas.

Computer freak from a young age. During univerity I discovered free and open source software and got hooked. I became involved in different upstream projects and into distribution packaging. Since 2010 I am a Debian Developer and Ubuntu core developer. After university I worked for a German company for eight years. During that time I contributed fixes and improvements to Debian packages that we used. Since 2022-04-01 I am working for Canonical in the Foundations team. Part of my work is maintaining Apport, initramfs-tools, and tzdata.

Caleb is an embedded developer by day, working at Linaro on upstream support for Qualcomm platforms in U-Boot and the Linux Kernel. By night they contribute to the Linux Mobile ecosystem as a member of the postmarketOS core team.

postmarketOS developer

Software engineer at Meta working on developer environments

Colin Walters has been having a lot of fun working on Free Software with the global community for over 25 years, contributing to Debian, GNOME, Fedora and RHEL, Cockpit, OpenShift 4 and more. He is the creator and maintainer of ostree and more recently bootc, and is excited about empowering Linux users to manage their systems as bootable container images.

https://github.com/cooperlees

I'm a software engineer working on the linux kernel team at Meta. My current focus is on kernel networking as well as bpf (in particular bpftrace).

I am a freelance software developer working on various infrastructure related projects.

In my free time I am working on projects related to Arch Linux and also maintain a few packages for the distribution.

Started my GNOME contributor journey as a Google Summer of Code intern in 2021. Currently, I'm one of the maintainers of the libsecret project, an active contributor to gnome-keyring, gcr projects and a member of the GNOME STF team (working on oo7-daemon). Also, I'm an Outreachy alumnus and I'm from Sri Lanka.

Dongsu, senior software engineer of AzCore Linux team in Microsoft, originally from South Korea, now lives in Berlin. He maintains Flatcar Container Linux, an image-based Linux distro optimized for containers, including tracking security issues to get them fixed in regular releases. His recent focus includes Rust-based projects like ue-rs, a reimplementation of the update engine in Flatcar in Rust.

Fabian Kammel is a Senior Security Consultant at ControlPlane, where he helps to make the (cloud-native) world a safer place. His goal is to bring hardware security and cloud-native security closer together, as well as, improving the developer experience in the security space. He previously spoke at KubeCon, SigstoreCon, was a guest on the Kubernetes Podcast, and regular host of the CNCF TAG Security.

Frank Vasquez is a software engineer and published author with over a decade of experience designing and building embedded Linux systems. During that time, he has shipped numerous devices including a rackmount DSP audio server, a diver-held sonar camcorder, and a consumer IoT hotspot. He is also a frequent speaker at open source software conferences including the Yocto Project Summit 2021, Embedded Linux Conference 2021 and FOSDEM 2022. Before his career as an embedded Linux engineer, Frank was a database kernel developer at IBM where he worked on Db2.

Software Engineer @ Meta, working on AI accelerator chip infrastructure

Co-author of labgrid and RAUC, works at Pengutronix.

I work on Fedora CoreOS

Jelle is an Arch Linux developer involved in packaging, reproducible builds, devops and maintaining various Arch Linux projects.

An experienced software developer who has worked on a wide range of infrastructure areas, including networking and storage, Jonathan is currently at Meta working on host integrity. This team works to provide a foundational hardware-focused layer that can be leveraged to ensure hosts are in a trusted state. One of the central components of this is the use of TPMs to provide secure key storage at scale.

A software project manager by day and FOSS aficionado.

PhD student on software supply chain at Télécom Paris during the day, NixOS contributor at night.

I’m in a constant state of wanting to make the world around me bend to my imagination. At one time I wondered how hard it would be to start my motorcycle from my phone. Rewiring a motorcycle and writing an interface was easy, but connecting it all together proved to be a challenge. A challenge that would define my career. That invisible, often impenetrable layer in the air between all the hardware in the world has become my stomping ground. Hardware is hard, I’ve been working to make it easier.

I hack on systemd and work for Microsoft.

Software engineer at Microsoft by day, open source developer involved in various projects by night (systemd maintainer, DPDK LTS maintainer, ZeroMQ project co-lead, Debian Developer).

Long time GNU/Linux user and developer. Software engineer in Samsung R&D Institute Poland.

Over the years Manuel gained experience in building Linux BSPs with different methods and toolkits. With this knowledge in mind he maintained the embedded linux build environment (ELBE http://elbe-rfs.org) for several years. Manuel has given Linux-related talks at RTLWS, LinuxTag, Chemnitzer Linuxtage, Embedded Linux Conference Europe and debconf.

Marco has been a Debian developer since 1997, and has been the maintainer of packages like mutt, ppp and udev.
In his day job he is a systems and network architect at a cloud infrastructure provider.

I'm an embedded software engineer working at emteria. When I'm not working on Android related stuff, I like to build image based OSes.

Mathieu is working as a Linux OS software engineer @ Microsoft mainly involved in Flatcar development (an open-source Container OS Linux distribution). He mainly works on the tests automation, release cycle and feature development. Outside of the work, he co-founded the SRE France association to organize DevOps/SRE Meetups in France and co-created the SRE SummerCamp: a 2 days event mixing outdoors activities and SRE/DevOps talks.

Mauro is a Guatemalan software developer with more than 17 years of professional experience. His main focus is on backend and CLI applications using the Ruby and Go programming languages. He’s also had a chance to participate in the Open-Source community on projects like Cloud Foundry and currently is part of the team building Kairos OS at Spectro Cloud.

Linux enthusiast, OSS contributor

Moritz is a security software engineer at Edgeless Systems, where he works on confidential computing in cloud environments. He works on reproducible NixOS images that are used to provide immutable and attestable trustworthy systems, backed by confidential computing and TPMs.

Besides that, as a hobbyist, he also works on NixOS and the nixpkgs repository.

To reach out, contact msanft via github.com.

Morten is a Open-Source developer and maintainer interested in supply-chain security, Linux distributions and user friendly security tools. The past decade he has contributed to projects like Arch Linux, Reproducible Builds, OpenSSF and the "Linux Userspace API" (UAPI) group. When he doesn't spend his free time doing open-source development he works with devops at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

Nils is the founder of a deliberately small company UPLEX and one of three maintainers of the Varnish-Cache FOSS project.

Philipp Deppenwiese is an IT consultant specializing in cybersecurity and firmware security. He is the President of the Open Source Firmware Foundation and founder of 9elements Cyber Security. He co-founded immune GmbH, focusing on protecting data centers from cyberattacks, and currently works at Niche Systems. Philipp is known for his work on system transparency, remote attestation, and platform security.

A NixOS developer, maintainer of https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote and various low-level stuff in NixOS.

Sam is a recent graduate working at Codethink as a Software Engineer.

I am a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE and lead the Future Technology Team. Previously, I was the lead project manager for SLES for over a decade. I have a long history in open source projects.

Timothée Ravier is a CoreOS engineer at Red Hat. He maintains the Fedora Atomic Desktops. He is a KDE developer and helps maintain KDE Applications as Flatpaks on Flathub.

I am a software engineer at Sidero Labs, where I help build Talos, a Linux-based operating system designed specifically for running Kubernetes. I also maintain a couple of open-source projects.

I started my career as a Java developer and gradually got involved in cloud and Kubernetes. Eventually, I found myself increasingly passionate about the systems that make all of this possible.

I work in Red Hat on systemd upstream maintenance and downstream in Fedora.

Free Software developer, Ecomodernist, into flying & Rust, and love cats.