All Systems Go! 2025

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

Long time GNOME contributor: GNOME OS maintainer, Release Team member, and STF contractor. Recently, working at Red Hat on the desktop team

Alberto Garcia is a software engineer working at Igalia. He has more than two decades of professional experience working with open source projects and Linux-based devices and operating systems. He is an active Debian developer and has years of contributions to projects like QEMU and to operating systems such as Maemo, MeeGo and SteamOS.

Alice, she is a Principal Software Engineer with expertise in Virtualization, Containers, and Kubernetes, and a KubeVirt maintainer. She recently joined the CoreOS team.

Canadian living in Germany with my six year old twins. Former GNOME. Working at Red Hat on Cockpit and composefs.

Arian is an infrastructure engineer by day, and an open source nerd by night

He has been a maintainer of nixOS for many years, where he works on systemd, AWS integrations and boot security.

a collaterlized tech-debt obligation

I hack on systemd and stuff

Dan is working as a Senior Fullstack developer, building container images, creating developer tools and sometimes works on QA at SUSE, which he joined after working as an embedded firmware developer. Originally he started out as a theoretical astrophysicist, but after becoming a contributor to various Open Source projects, he finally made this his full time job at SUSE.

David has been working on the Linux Kernel and foundational user-space components for over 15 years. Starting with input and graphics drivers, then working on Wayland, systemd, and kdbus, he currently maintains dbus-broker and works on new Linux transport layers.

I am a freelance software developer working on Arch Linux.

I am interested in and work on projects related to digital signatures, automation and package management.

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.

Emmanuele is a software developer working at Igalia; he is also part of the GNOME project and has worked on various desktop and mobile operating systems, both as a professional developer and as a volunteer.

Software Architect for Body Worn Camera Solutions

I'm on Red Hat's Virtualization and Storage team. I maintain virtiofsd and created podman-bootc, constantly exploring and contributing to projects I find fascinating.

I work at Red Hat on RHEL CoreOS, Fedora CoreOS, and all the tech related to it.

I’m a long time kernel developer and fixer of difficult problems. I spent a lot of time as a maintainer of Btrfs and lead developer. I’ve worked in a variety of kernel areas to fix problems, and lately have been focusing my time on building systing, a tool to help me debug difficult issues.

I've been using NixOS for several years now, and through it, I discovered the flexibility and power that systemd offers. However, while working with systemd units, I often found myself stuck in a slow and tedious feedback loop; constantly switching between commands just to start, check, debug, and edit units. That frustration led me to build isd: a terminal user interface to streamline systemd workflow for newcomers and experienced users.

My goal with isd is to make interacting with systemd faster, more intuitive, and enjoyable.

Lennart hacks on systemd.

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)

Hey. I'm Maanya Goenka from the Linux Systems Group organization at Microsoft based out of Redmond in the US. As an engineer on this team, I have been working on a plethora of open-source Linux stuff for over 2 years now and am excited to present with my colleagues on some of the work we have done for systemd since the last time I was to attend the ASG conference 2 years ago. In my spare time outside of work, I enjoy being in the outdoors whether that be hiking, rock climbing, or just going on long walks. I am excited to attend my first conference as a non-student and visit the city of Berlin :)

I work at Microsoft and develop a Linux distribution for its Azure Boost platform. In my free time, I work on home automation projects, fix decommissioned payphones, and help run a hackerspace in Seattle.

Marco d'Itri has been involved with Internet operations and policy in Italy since the late '90s, and has been a Debian Developer for over 25 years.
In Debian he likes to maintain system packages like netbase, kmod, udev and ppp, the BGP RPKI ecosystem and much more.

Martín is a Software Engineer from Paraguay, Open Source contributor for the GNOME project and part of the Core team at Igalia.

I'm a Software Engineer working for Meta.
I work mainly on systemd and other user space programs, but I also keep an eye on kernel development and networking.

Michel Lind is co-chair of the new CentOS Proposed Updates SIG. He is a long-term Fedora contributor who more recently also contribute to EPEL and the Hyperscale SIG. In his day job, Michel is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace team at Meta, which is responsible for the CentOS Stream deployment on the production fleet.

Mickaël Salaün is a kernel developer and open source enthusiast. He is mainly interested in Linux-based operating systems, especially from a security point of view. He has built security sandboxes before hacking into the kernel on a new LSM called Landlock, of which he is now the maintainer. He previously worked for the French national cybersecurity agency (ANSSI) on systems hardening. He is currently employed by Microsoft to work on Linux-related security projects.

Mike Willard is a Software Engineer at Meta, specializing in Container Networking and eBPF. Prior to working at Meta, he has experience working in the Aerospace industry, and at a music tech startup. He lives in Brooklyn, NYC, and has degrees from Northeastern and Brandeis Universities.

Developer @ GardenLinux, SAP

Focused on building a streamlined, security-hardened Linux for container and Kubernetes environments, with a keen interest in C programming and security.

Quentin is a software engineer working at Meta in the Linux Userspace team. While his team contribute to all things open-source, his main focus is to speed up packet filtering using the latest and greatest kernel technologies.

Lix package manager core team, NixOS developer, (co-)author of the Secure Boot solution in NixOS and many other fun stuff at the boundary between kernel and userspace.

A seasoned Linux Engineer with more than 30 years of experience working with UNIX and Linux.

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.

Umut and Fredrik are software architects at Axis Communications, where they have been instrumental in shaping the company’s software platform over the years. Together, they bring over 50 years of experience spanning embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, desktop applications, and mobile development. Their recent work focuses on aligning Axis’ software architecture with evolving product requirements—driving efforts in system optimization, virtualization, and large-scale automation.

Valentin works at Canonical on Ubuntu Core, and during his free time, he contributes to GNOME OS as member of the GNOME Foundation.

Working in the Red Hat "Plumbers Team" on systemd, mkosi, Fedora, and various other Linux building blocks.

FOSS developer, Ecomodernist, into Rust, flying, and EVs. Maintainer of zbus.