All Systems Go! 2026

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

As a member of the Future Technology Team at SUSE, we integrate upstream technology into the distribution to solve user's real problems.

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 as a founding engineer at Amutable, building systems around verifiable integrity; he is committed to working in the open, and is a strong proponent of Free Software.

Twenty-plus years in systems engineering and infrastructure.
Currently an engineering manager at Meta; sdme is a personal project,
built on weekends and evenings. Lifelong Linux user, occasional contributor
across the stack. Lives in London, UK.

Alexandre Pujol is a French system engineer at Linagora. He is is graduated from a PhD Student in computer security & privacy in University College Dublin, Ireland. His area of work includes user privacy, secret management, and system security. He is the author of multiple password-store extensions such as pass-tomb and pass-import as well as the maintainer of apparmor.d, a large repository of apparmor profiles.

I design software.

Corin Rypkema is an engineering manager & technical lead at Amazon integrating immutable, read only OS images across thousands of embedded devices at scale. With ten years in security focused embedded systems, Corin has deep expertise deploying secure boot, TPM, and cryptographic systems in production environments, solving the operational, process, and integration challenges of bringing these foundational technologies to enterprise device fleets.

systemd/mkosi maintainer

Starting his career at a research foundation, David Cassany contributed to projects focused on multimedia streaming within open-source Linux ecosystems. For the past decade, he has brought that expertise to SUSE as an open-source software engineer, specializing in Linux appliance build tools, containerized systems, and Kubernetes architectures.

Emil has been dabbing into open source developer since 2010, when he sent a patch fixing the PLL clocks in nouveau for his Nvidia graphics card.

Since then, he has worn multiple hats and been involved in various projects - from Linux kernel development, contributing to the graphics stack (Mesa, Xorg, Wayland) and also re-designing/building SteamOS 3.

Emmanuele Bassi is part of the Core team at Igalia, where he works on the development of Moonforge as well as various other projects related to OS integration and development. In his spare time, Emmanuele works on GTK and GNOME; finds good eating spots in London; and builds plastic models of Japanese anime robots.

Frank Vasquez is a published technical author and frequent speaker at open source software conferences including the Yocto Project Summit, FOSDEM, Open Source Summit, All Systems Go! and the Linux Plumbers Conference. He has nearly 20 years of experience designing and building Linux systems. During that time, Frank has shipped numerous products including a rackmount DSP audio server, a diver-held sonar camcorder, an IoT hotspot, a home battery, and a grid-scale energy storage system.

Gopal has a bachelors in Computer Engineering and a Masters in Computer Science and has been in the embedded systems industry as software engineer for over 16 years. Currently, Gopal is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Amazon working on grocery technology.

Lead developer of KDE Linux and KDE developer for well over 20 years.

Julian Sparber is a free software developer living in Bologna, Italy. He's a long-time contributor to the GNOME desktop stack, as well as various GTK third-party apps. Most recently he's worked on systemd installer infrastructure as part of a Sovereign Tech Fund project. He also serves on the GNOME board of directors, and is part of Modal Collective.

I work on image-based Linux for a handful of years now. First at Kinvolk and them Microsoft where I did Flatcar Container Linux, and now at Amutable.

Engineer enthusiastic about open source, security, and unique operating systems.

I’m Kritik Sachdeva, currently working as a Support Professional at IBM. I’ve been working with Ceph & OpenShift for the past 5 years, and since college I had a great interest in technologies like K8s, containers, or Ceph.

Since then, I’ve enjoyed exploring how different technologies can be integrated to solve real-world problems/

Over the last couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to speak at various community events & these experiences had helped me grow both technically and personally.

Lennart works on systemd, and is Chief Engineer @ Amutable.

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

Marco d'Itri has been involved with Internet operations and policy in Italy since the late '90s, and has been a Debian Developer for almost 30 years.
In Debian, he likes to maintain system packages like netbase, kmod, udev and ppp, Vinyl Cache, 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.

Martynas is a Software Engineer at Isovalent at Cisco working on Cilium and eBPF. In his spare time he enjoys spending time in mountains.

Software Engineer at Red Hat interested on Operating System development and virtualization

I work for Amutable and I like tea and free software.

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.

Nixpkgs Maintainer
Co-Author of Lanzaboote, the Boot Security Toolkit for NixOS

Rodrigo is a software engineer at Amutable and has been a free software developer for 20+ years. With a background in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), his career spans both software engineering and system administration.

He is currently a maintainer of runc and has been contributing to Kubernetes since 2016. Over the years, Rodrigo has maintained cloud-native projects like MetalLB and Lokomotive, and contributed to open-source projects including containerd, moby, php and Linux.

NixOS developer, lanzaboote (Secure Boot for NixOS) co-author, author of Sécurix/Bureautix — a NixOS variant for the public sector, deployed in the French government.

Sebastian Wick is working on Flatpak, XDG Desktop Portal, and all kinds of desktop infrastructure. He is a GNOME Foundation member and works for Red Hat.

Stéphane Graber is the project leader for Linux Containers and mostly focuses on the Incus container and VM manager. He's been working on container technology for about 15 years and is known for running the Containers micro-conference at the Linux Plumbers Conference as well as the containers and kernel devrooms at FOSDEM.

In his spare time, Stéphane is also the VP of Infrastructure for NorthSec, a non-profit running a yearly cybersecurity conference and capture the flag (CTF) event in Montreal, featuring a rather crazy infrastructure running hundreds of virtual machines and thousands of containers to provide challenges to hundreds of contestants.

Stéphane is the CTO of FuturFusion, a company building an Incus-based private cloud solution with a particular focus on migrating away from VMware. He's also the owner of Zabbly where he takes on direct contract work, also primarily focused on Incus.

Thorsten Kukuk is a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE leading the Future
Technology Team. With nearly 30 years in open source, he pioneered NIS (YP)
for Linux, contributed to glibc, and serves as a long-time Linux-PAM
maintainer.
Today he is the key architect behind openSUSE MicroOS and transactional updates.

Vitaly works at Red Hat Virtualization Engineering team making sure Linux guests are first class citizen on various hypervisors and public clouds. He also contributes to KVM/QEMU stack and is part of KVM maintainers team in the Linux kernel.

A contributor to systemd since 2010. Involved in the Fedora Linux project, member of FESCo. Employed in Amutable, working on cryptographically-verified immutable Linux installations.