Speakers
Paul MCKENNEY
Paul E. McKenney has been coding for almost four decades, more than half of that on parallel hardware, where his work has earned him a reputation among some as a flaming heretic. Over the past decade, Paul has been an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Linux Technology Center. Paul maintains the RCU implementation within the Linux kernel, where the variety of workloads present highly entertaining performance, scalability, real-time response, and energy-efficiency challenges. Prior to that, he worked on the DYNIX/ptx kernel at Sequent, and prior to that on packet-radio and Internet protocols (but long before it was polite to mention Internet at cocktail parties), system administration, business applications, and real-time systems. His hobbies include what passes for running at his age (also knows as “hiking”) along with the usual house-wife-and-kids habit.
Maira CANAL
Maíra Canal is a graphics kernel developer working at Igalia, an employee-owned Free Software Open Source consultancy. She spends most of her time working in the DRM subsystem, especially in the V3D driver, used in the Broadcom’s Raspberry Pi GPUs. As part of an Igalia Coding Experience project, she rewrote the VGEM DRM virtual driver in Rust together with some safe abstractions.
Dorinda BASSEY
Dorinda Bassey is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in virtualization technologies and device emulation. She has made significant contributions to the Rust-vmm project, particularly in developing virtio device backends like vhost-device-gpu and vhost-device-sound. Her work focuses on implementing virtio-gpu in Rust, enabling modular, secure, and hypervisor-agnostic graphics virtualization. Dorinda has also contributed to projects like QEMU, stress-ng and the Yocto Project, and has presented her work at conferences such as KVM Forum and DevConf.CZ.
Melissa WEN
Melissa Wen is a kernel developer at Igalia, specializing in developing GPU drivers for the Linux/DRM subsystem. Beyond writing code, she actively contributes to the Linux kernel ecosystem through tooling, mentoring in Outreachy, GSoC and galia Coding Experience, kernel documentation, technical blogging, and organizing DRM community events and workshops. Her current focus of work is the Linux display stack, color/HDR support, and the AMD driver for the Steam Deck.
SJ PARK
SJ is a kernel programmer with a strong focus on memory management. He develops and maintains DAMON, a Linux kernel subsystem designed for efficient data access monitoring and access-aware system operations. He is working as a software engineer at Meta’s kernel team.
Roman GUSHCHIN
Roman is a kernel engineer with interests in memory management, cgroups, bpf, self-driving cars and random trouble-shooting, with a particular passion to optimize the kernel memory accounting. Co-maintainer for memory cgroups. Currently works at Google.
Leonardo BRAS
Leonardo Brás is a Linux kernel developer who likes learning kernel mechanisms inner-workings on a CPU architecture level, which includes interests such as parallel programming, locking mechanisms and computer architecture.
Over the last few years, he has been working on improving Linux performance for Real-Time virtualized workloads, which is a fun way to touch a lot of different interesting code around the kernel.
Greg KH
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Fellow at the Linux Foundation. He is responsible for the stable Linux kernel releases, and is also the maintainer of the USB, driver core, staging drivers, and other portions of the Linux kernel. He spends his time reviewing patches and traveling to conferences to give presentations.
Andrea RIGHI
Andrea Righi works as a Kernel Engineer in NVIDIA. He is specialized in operating systems, virtualization solutions and performance analysis.
Andrea has contributed to many open-source projects, with a particular focus on the Linux kernel. He is the author and maintainer of virtme-ng (https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng), an active developer of sched-ext and the author of the scx_rustland Linux scheduler .
Matthew WILCOX
Andrea Righi works as a Kernel Engineer in NVIDIA. He is specialized in operating systems, virtualization solutions and performance analysis.
Andrea has contributed to many open-source projects, with a particular focus on the Linux kernel. He is the author and maintainer of virtme-ng (https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng), an active developer of sched-ext and the author of the scx_rustland Linux scheduler .