Linaro Connect 2025

Dong Wei is a Standards Architect and Fellow at Arm. He leads the Arm SystemReady Program. He has significant experience in leading the industry in innovations and standardization.... Dong Wei is a Standards Architect and Fellow at Arm. He leads the Arm SystemReady Program. He has significant experience in leading the industry in innovations and standardization. He is the Vice President (Chief Executive) of the UEFI Forum and co-chairs its ACPI Working Group. He is a Board member of the PCI SIG and co-chairs its Firmware Working Group. He is a Board member and the Secretary of both the CXL and the UCIe Consortiums. He is a Contributor Advisor on the TCG Board of Directors. He serves on the OCP and OPI Steering Committees. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE. Prior to joining Arm, Dong Wei was the Vice President and Fellow at Hewlett-Packard Company and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. As the Chief Architect for UEFI and ACPI, he led the definitions of the interfaces hardware, firmware and operating systems for x64, x86, Arm, ia64, RISC-V and PA-RISC based systems. He is a frequent speaker at many industry events including Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft WINHEC, Arm TechCon and DevSummit, Linaro Connect, and OCP Global and Regional Summit. Read More

David Brown is a member of the Linaro Vertical Technologies Group, and has worked on the Linux kernel, with a focus on security for a number of years. Recently, he has been focusin... David Brown is a member of the Linaro Vertical Technologies Group, and has worked on the Linux kernel, with a focus on security for a number of years. Recently, he has been focusing on security as it relates to IoT and embedded devices, including focusing on secure booting, and secure network communications. He is currently the Security Chair for the Zephyr Project, and a maintainer for the MCUboot secure bootloader. Read More

Red Hat Engineer working with CentOS Automotive SIG. Upstream maintainer of inotify-tools, ostree, etc.

Been with Arm for last 8 years, for last 4 years or so working on TF-A, Hafnium and other related firmware projects.

I worked at ARM Ltd from March 2010 until June 2022 as a Linux kernel developer before joining Linaro in July 2022. Prior to joining ARM, I worked at the AST (Advanced System Techn... I worked at ARM Ltd from March 2010 until June 2022 as a Linux kernel developer before joining Linaro in July 2022. Prior to joining ARM, I worked at the AST (Advanced System Technology) Lab of STMicroelectronics in Grenoble France, where I spent 7 years programming kernel device drivers for ARM processors for a variety of purposes like power management, advanced computing and interconnect device drivers. I presented talks at DATE Europe in 2003, ICCD 2005 and SoC conference in 2008, ELC Europe 2011, Linux Plumbers 2012 and 2016, LinuxCon NA 2014 and several Linaro Connect events and other workshops around Europe. I ran 5 PCI microconferences at Linux Plumbers conference. I am a keen and enthusiastic systems programmer since the early days of microcontrollers and got involved with Linux kernel programming in 2006 for both personal interest and work. I am an active open source contributor, and attended many Linux conferences and workshops. Read More

Tech Lead for Linaro EDGE group, heavily focused on SystemReady, security and IoT devices

Leandro works at Linaro Toolchain Working Group since 2023, focused on enabling and improving LLVM Toolchain on ARM, in particular Flang, LLVM's Fortran compiler.

Grant Likely is a Linux kernel developer and maintainer of the Device Tree subsystem. Grant's first involvement with Linux development was back in 2004 while working on an embedded... Grant Likely is a Linux kernel developer and maintainer of the Device Tree subsystem. Grant's first involvement with Linux development was back in 2004 while working on an embedded system. Linux didn't support his platform, so after he got Linux to boot, he posted his changes publicly and got them merged into mainline. Since then, he has been actively involved in improving the state of embedded Linux and hasworked with many different embedded systems. Currently, Grant chairs the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board and is a Fellow at Linaro. Read More

Software Product Manager | Linux Kernel | Firmware A | Linux on Arm Masters : M.B.A , University of Oxford, U.K. Undergrad : Electronics and Communication engineering Past wor... Software Product Manager | Linux Kernel | Firmware A | Linux on Arm Masters : M.B.A , University of Oxford, U.K. Undergrad : Electronics and Communication engineering Past work spectrum : RTL Design | Infrared Imaging | Secure Desktop | Supply Chain & Operations Passionate about end-end product development from conception to launch Originally from India, UK bound since 2018. Besides work, engage in Women STEM mentorship, interior decoration, travel and cooking Read More

Pere is an Engineering & Program Manager with over 25+ years of experience in the Electronics industry, currently serving as Director of Technology at Arm. In his current role,... Pere is an Engineering & Program Manager with over 25+ years of experience in the Electronics industry, currently serving as Director of Technology at Arm. In his current role, he is part of the Arm SystemReady program leadership, where he drives system and firmware standards to enable off-the-shelf interoperability between operating systems and platforms, facilitating seamless OS booting on compliant Arm-based platforms. Pere owns the technology strategy, scouting, and roadmap for cloud-to-edge devices, collaborating closely with business owners, architects, tech leads, and delivery managers. He also leads the UEFI+Devicetree initiative within the program. Pere’s career spans technical, business, and operational roles, giving him a comprehensive understanding of end-to-end product and solution lifecycles, from strategic ideation and investment approval to development and release. His background includes ASIC Design, coordinating cross-functional teams across diverse geographies, drawing on years of experience within engineering to support both technical and operational advancements in emerging technologies. Over the last decade, Pere has led initiatives at the intersection of engineering and strategic execution, aligning technology development with product innovation and delivery. Read More

Experienced software engineer at Linaro on Toolchain Team, working on GNU and LLVM projects. I am also a GLIBC maintainer.

LLVM, GNU Tools and Golang development.

Thiago has been working on GDB, the Linux kernel and firmware for more than a decade.

Android Virtual Devices and Android Bootloaders

I have been working on secure and measured boot and attestation solutions in the past years in several tf.org projects (MCUboot, TF-A, RMM).

Dileep Karpur is a Staff Software Product Manager at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, where he works as part of the Windows on Snapdragon team. He's responsible for leading the developm... Dileep Karpur is a Staff Software Product Manager at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, where he works as part of the Windows on Snapdragon team. He's responsible for leading the development and management of tools and APIs tailored for developers, executing developer-centric initiatives, and fostering an engaged developer community. Read More

I work with the Qualcomm Landing team on Linux SoC enablement.

Matteo is Director of Software Technology Management at Arm and serves as Chairman of the Board for Trusted Firmware. He drives Arm's community effort into various open source pro... Matteo is Director of Software Technology Management at Arm and serves as Chairman of the Board for Trusted Firmware. He drives Arm's community effort into various open source projects, focusing on security architectures, firmware & kernel interfaces, platform security requirements and ecosystem enablement. In a previous life, he spent many years managing and working on embedded software developments for networking and automotive devices across various companies, where firmware meant BSPs and lot of proprietary headache. Read More

Shebu is the co-chair of Trustedfirmware.org community project and Director, Software Technology Management at Arm Ltd. He drives the roadmap of Trusted Firmware-M and Mbed TLS/PSA... Shebu is the co-chair of Trustedfirmware.org community project and Director, Software Technology Management at Arm Ltd. He drives the roadmap of Trusted Firmware-M and Mbed TLS/PSA Crypto open source projects and lead the collaborations amongst Trustedfirmware members and the wider community. Shebu also maintains the roadmap for Arm's contributions to networking infrastructure projects such as DPDK, VPP etc. Prior to joining Arm, Shebu worked in Samsung Cambridge and Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR, now Qualcomm) Read More

Kernel hacker at Linaro leading the Google landing team

AMD Technical Fellow focused on systems architecture and solutions engineering for platform level product enablement. Chief architect for AMD Kria and Embedded+ embedded platforms,... AMD Technical Fellow focused on systems architecture and solutions engineering for platform level product enablement. Chief architect for AMD Kria and Embedded+ embedded platforms, shaping overall hardware, software, and tools requirements to enable embedded focused customers and applications. Read More

Dan is a firmware architect in Arm's Central Engineering Software (CE-SW) group, technically overseeing Arm's contribution to TrustedFirmware.org projects and the Arm Confidential... Dan is a firmware architect in Arm's Central Engineering Software (CE-SW) group, technically overseeing Arm's contribution to TrustedFirmware.org projects and the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (Arm CCA) reference software. He is also chair of the TrustedFirmware.org Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Read More

Sumit is the Tech Lead in Linaro's Consumer Group, working with a team of super-amazing engineers who work together on Android and related technologies.

Arnd has been a kernel maintainer with Linaro for over 12 years and maintains the SoC tree, while getting involved in many areas of the kernel overall. He coordinates treewide chan... Arnd has been a kernel maintainer with Linaro for over 12 years and maintains the SoC tree, while getting involved in many areas of the kernel overall. He coordinates treewide changes across architectures and maintains the include/asm-generic subdirectory that contains common infrastructure for CPU architectures. Read More

Neil joined Linaro in September 2022 to work full-time on Qualcomm Upstreaming of their high-end SoC platforms. Neil has been hacking on embedded platforms since he was 16 years ol... Neil joined Linaro in September 2022 to work full-time on Qualcomm Upstreaming of their high-end SoC platforms. Neil has been hacking on embedded platforms since he was 16 years old, from Casio Calculators to Phones platforms in the last months. He maintains the Amlogic Linux & U-Boot baseport, Linux DRM Bridge & Panel codebase. In addition to Qualcomm, Neil regularly contributes to the Linux Kernel and U-Boot supporting the Amlogic SoCs support and DRM codebase. Read More

Xinliang Liu is a Senior Engineer at Linaro Datacenter & Cloud Group Team. He mainly works on Arm64 cloud infra open source projects such as Linux kernel, Linux Distros, OpenStack,... Xinliang Liu is a Senior Engineer at Linaro Datacenter & Cloud Group Team. He mainly works on Arm64 cloud infra open source projects such as Linux kernel, Linux Distros, OpenStack, Cloud Native Projects, HPC Projects, etc. Currently, he is focusing on open-source storage projects like Lustre, BeeGFS, SPDK, Mayastor, Rook, etc. Read More

After studying Computer Science in Manchester, Will started his career for a small startup developing binary translation tools. Their most famous tool was the original 'Rosetta',... After studying Computer Science in Manchester, Will started his career for a small startup developing binary translation tools. Their most famous tool was the original 'Rosetta', which allowed Mac users to run ppc applications on the new x86 Macs. Will has been at Arm for around 11 years. In that time, he has led the LLVM team responsible for developing SVE support, as well as launching Arm Compiler for Linux - our commercial LLVM-based toolchain focused on the High Performance Computing space. Around 4 years ago, he changed role to Technology Management, where he is now responsible for guiding and prioritising the roadmaps for all the GCC and LLVM-based toolchain development at Arm. Will lives in the English Lake District, with his wife and two sons. Read More

U-Boot maintainer for Qualcomm platforms, Linux on Mobile enthusiast and all-round FOSS enjoyer.

I'm a Linux kernel hacker for about 14 years and working for ARM server for more than 11 years, started from ACPI for ARM64 enablement and upstream in Linaro 2013 (work as an assig... I'm a Linux kernel hacker for about 14 years and working for ARM server for more than 11 years, started from ACPI for ARM64 enablement and upstream in Linaro 2013 (work as an assignee, such a good memory!), then I became the ACPI for ARM64 co-maintainer in Linux kernel at 2016. I'm the major contributor and technical leader in Huawei for ARM server enablement, performance tuning, and software-hardware co-design in OS area, talk to me anything about ARM server. Read More

Software developer at Arm since 2019. Working mostly on TrustedFirmware.org projects, e.g. Trusted Services, OP-TEE and Trusted Firmware-A.

Dan Carpenter has worked on static analysis for 15 years. He lives in Africa and was once almost eaten by a leopard.

A computer engineer for 20+ years, having worked on a variety of areas. I have worked with micro-controllers, CAN networks, and even web development a long time ago. I did mobile w... A computer engineer for 20+ years, having worked on a variety of areas. I have worked with micro-controllers, CAN networks, and even web development a long time ago. I did mobile web application development before the smartphone era. I have been focused on Linux, virtualization, and enterprise servers (mainly PowerPC, but also mainframes and x86) for 15 years while I worked at IBM. Now, at Linaro, I am the chair of the Data Center Group, where I direct, with Linaro's members and engineers, all the work we do on Arm server platforms for data center and cloud. Read More

Vincent is a System Architect at Arm. He is the technical lead for the SystemReady Devicetree band, accompanying partners to compliance. With the community, he is maintaining the... Vincent is a System Architect at Arm. He is the technical lead for the SystemReady Devicetree band, accompanying partners to compliance. With the community, he is maintaining the EBBR specification. Before Arm, Vincent worked on embedded Linux for several semiconductor manufacturers. Read More

Working to bring standards compliance to Qualcomm firmware. Formerly: Application Processor firmware lead in NUVIA, continuing in that role post acquisition by Qualcomm. Tec... Working to bring standards compliance to Qualcomm firmware. Formerly: Application Processor firmware lead in NUVIA, continuing in that role post acquisition by Qualcomm. Tech lead for the UEFI team in Linaro's Enterprise Group. Worked on bootloaders and the Linux kernel. Author of ports of GRUB (the project formerly known as GRUB2) to 32-bit and 64-bit ARM. 12.5 years at Arm, starting in the Partner Enablement Group, ending up in an assignment to Linaro. Read More

Xiong Wei is Chairman of the openEuler Committee and the Vice Chairman of the Technical oversight Committee of the OpenAtom Foundation. Xiong Wei graduated from Nankai University w... Xiong Wei is Chairman of the openEuler Committee and the Vice Chairman of the Technical oversight Committee of the OpenAtom Foundation. Xiong Wei graduated from Nankai University with a doctor's degree in engineering and has been engaged in the R&D of system software such as operating systems for a long time. Worked as a R&D leader in companies such as TurboLinux, WindRiver, and Huawei. In-depth technical background and industry understanding of operating systems. Read More

I am a Performance Software Engineer. Currently, I work on performance optimization of database engine targeting AWS Graviton 3/4 servers for one of the major international client.... I am a Performance Software Engineer. Currently, I work on performance optimization of database engine targeting AWS Graviton 3/4 servers for one of the major international client. I specialize in SIMD vectorization programming model for X86(MMX, SSEx, AVX, AVX2, AVX512) and ARM(NEON, SVE, SVE2). I also do have extensive experience in Computer Graphics Programming(OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan) and GPGPU Programming(OpenCL, NVIDIA CUDA). Read More

Mani is a senior Linux kernel engineer on Linaro's Qualcomm Landing team. He is actively working on improving the upstream support for Qualcomm chipsets. Mani is maintaining the PC... Mani is a senior Linux kernel engineer on Linaro's Qualcomm Landing team. He is actively working on improving the upstream support for Qualcomm chipsets. Mani is maintaining the PCI Endpoint Subsystem, Qualcomm MHI bus, a few ARM SoC architectures, and several drivers in Linux Kernel. Recently, he became the designated reviewer for PCI controller drivers in the kernel. Read More

David Spickett is a software engineer at Arm and is assigned to Linaro. Where he works full time on the LLVM Project, focusing on the LLDB debugger, and project infrastructure.

Ramin is working on performance measurement and optimisation projects with Linaro clients. Before Linaro he worked across multiple sectors including developing games for the PlaySt... Ramin is working on performance measurement and optimisation projects with Linaro clients. Before Linaro he worked across multiple sectors including developing games for the PlayStation3, extending Android to support AArch64, implementing security hardware and software for airlines as well as developing systems for real-time analysis of financial data. He is proud to have been part of ARM's critical growth for almost 8 years during the iPhone boom! Read More

Leendert van Doorn is a Senior Vice President at Qualcomm which he recently (June 2022) joined to help with Qualcomm's datacenter, software strategy and AI Software efforts. Befor... Leendert van Doorn is a Senior Vice President at Qualcomm which he recently (June 2022) joined to help with Qualcomm's datacenter, software strategy and AI Software efforts. Before that, he was a Distinguished Engineer/VP in Microsoft Azure Core team where he is best known for his work to enable ARM64 servers as first-class citizens in Microsoft Azure datacenters. He has also been working on disaggregation and he represented Microsoft on the board of Directors for the Compute Express Link (CXL) and the Gen-Z organizations. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Corporate Fellow/CVP at AMD where he was responsible for AMD's security efforts, software innovations and he was the technical executive during the creation of AMD's China JV. Leendert joined AMD from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he was a Researcher and Sr. Manager leading the secure systems team, the ethical hacker’s team and a security usability and privacy team. At IBM he worked on physically secure coprocessors, secure Hypervisors, TPM, wireless security scanners and he added full virtualization support to Xen in collaboration with Intel and AMD. When conference calls and meetings are getting too much, he has been known to find refuge at CMU ECE where he is an adjunct professor. Leendert holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and an engineering degree from the HTS in The Hague, The Netherlands. Read More

John is Senior Director of Software and Ecosystems in the IoT business at Arm, where he and his team define and deliver software products and tooling to serve a broad range of mark... John is Senior Director of Software and Ecosystems in the IoT business at Arm, where he and his team define and deliver software products and tooling to serve a broad range of markets, from smart home to industrial vision and robotics. Read More

Stefano Stabellini is a Fellow at AMD, where he leads system software architecture and the virtualization team. Previously, at Aporeto, he created a virtualization-based security s... Stefano Stabellini is a Fellow at AMD, where he leads system software architecture and the virtualization team. Previously, at Aporeto, he created a virtualization-based security solution for containers and authored several security articles. As Senior Principal Software Engineer in Citrix, he led a small group of passionate engineers working on Open Source projects. Stefano has been involved in Xen development since 2007. He created libxenlight in November 2009 and started the Xen port to ARM with virtualization extensions in 2011. Today he is a Xen Project committer, and he maintains Xen on ARM and Xen support in Linux and QEMU. Read More

Usama has been working at TU Dresden since October 2017. His current research focus is on the formal specification and verification of attested TLS for confidential computing. He... Usama has been working at TU Dresden since October 2017. His current research focus is on the formal specification and verification of attested TLS for confidential computing. He led the recently completed TEE formal specification project [1] (which included Arm CCA) and currently leads the new KBS formal verification project [2] in Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) Attestation Special Interest Group (SIG). He also contributes to various research networks, such as EuroProofNet (WG3), Méthodes formelles pour la sécurité, Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Usable Formal Methods Research Group (UFMRG), as well as engineering networks, such as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Remote ATtestation procedureS (RATS) WG, Transport Layer Security (TLS) WG, and Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning (TEEP) WG. Further details are available at his webpage [3]. [1] https://github.com/CCC-Attestation/formal-spec-TEE [2] https://github.com/CCC-Attestation/formal-spec-KBS [3] https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/sya/se/die-professur/beschaeftigte/muhammad-usama-sardar Read More

Rudy Graduated from the University of Reading in 2011, where he studied Cybernetics and Electronic Engineering. He held various Engineering positions in Arm for over 10 years, ma... Rudy Graduated from the University of Reading in 2011, where he studied Cybernetics and Electronic Engineering. He held various Engineering positions in Arm for over 10 years, mainly focused on development and quality aspects of Arm based debuggers and profilers. Rudy has been involved in HPC tools since 2017 and now works as a Principal Field Application Engineer at Linaro, spreading his technical expertise and knowledge to help users optimize, debug and port their HPC codes. Read More

Krzysztof Kozlowski is an active Linux Kernel developer, working currently for Linaro on upstream development of Qualcomm ARM/ARM64 SoCs. Krzysztof maintains several upstream kerne... Krzysztof Kozlowski is an active Linux Kernel developer, working currently for Linaro on upstream development of Qualcomm ARM/ARM64 SoCs. Krzysztof maintains several upstream kernel subsystems: Devicetree bindings (as a co-maintainer with Rob and Conor), Memory controller drivers, NFC subsystem with drivers, and Samsung Exynos SoC ARM/ARM64 architecture. Krzysztof made several contributions to the kernel, appearing in top-contributors for several releases. Read More

I am a staff software engineer from Arm. I am focus on cloud computing and performance tuning on Arm64 platform

Working in the Automotive Team at Red Hat with a focus on Virtualization. Lead developer of libkrun, maintainer of the "microvm" machine type in QEMU, co-developer of krunkit and m... Working in the Automotive Team at Red Hat with a focus on Virtualization. Lead developer of libkrun, maintainer of the "microvm" machine type in QEMU, co-developer of krunkit and muvm, and trying to put a microVM everywhere. Read More

I have several years of experience as an Embedded Software Engineer at an industrial electronics manufacturer company, primarily working with ARM SBCs and SoMs based on NXP and Roc... I have several years of experience as an Embedded Software Engineer at an industrial electronics manufacturer company, primarily working with ARM SBCs and SoMs based on NXP and Rockchip. Most projects I've worked on involved Industrial IoT Gateways and Industrial HMIs. I've gained expertise in OpenEmbedded Yocto/Android customizations for customer products, BSP development (Linux kernel, U-Boot) and Zephyr. Additionally, I've actively contributed to open-source projects, including UDOO Boards and the Oniro Project. Currently, at Linaro, I'm assigned to Qualcomm Compute Project Team, working on high-end ARM64 laptop SoCs. Read More

Tech Lead for TF-RMM project

Julian works in the Architecture and Technology Group at Arm with a focus on security for A-profile devices. Prior to this, he worked as a software architect in the open source so... Julian works in the Architecture and Technology Group at Arm with a focus on security for A-profile devices. Prior to this, he worked as a software architect in the open source software group in Arm. Before Arm, he has many years of product development experience ranging from Linux based IoT devices, wireless protocol stacks through to music technology. Read More

Yongzheng Wu is currently in charge of Huawei's CCA software stack and Trusted Computing standardization. His research area includes system security and Linux kernel.

Arunachalam works as software engineer at Arm. He has work experience in system software development related to kernel development (including AIX and Linux), Virtualization and Sto... Arunachalam works as software engineer at Arm. He has work experience in system software development related to kernel development (including AIX and Linux), Virtualization and Storage subsystem. Read More

Focused on ecosystem enablement for Huawei's Kunpeng Server CPUs - primarily in the Linux Kernel. Long term (15+ years) upstream kernel contributor and maintainer. One of the ker... Focused on ecosystem enablement for Huawei's Kunpeng Server CPUs - primarily in the Linux Kernel. Long term (15+ years) upstream kernel contributor and maintainer. One of the kernel CXL maintainer group and maintainer of the QEMU emulation for CXL as well as participating in future CXL specification development. Primary role is in unblocking parts of the software ecosystem to enable new use cases, particular via collaboration across the industry. Current focus on CXL and data center targeted parts of the Arm architecture. Read More

Erik Lundell is a Software Engineer at Arm, specializing in the development of Executorch. With a strong background in machine learning and edge computing, Erik has been instrument... Erik Lundell is a Software Engineer at Arm, specializing in the development of Executorch. With a strong background in machine learning and edge computing, Erik has been instrumental in integrating advanced AI capabilities into edge devices. His work focuses on leveraging frameworks like TOSA and PyTorch to enhance the performance and efficiency of neural network operations on Arm's Ethos-U NPUs. Passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology, Erik is dedicated to enabling innovative and efficient AI deployments at the edge. Read More

I work with Open Source Software group at Arm. Currently, I am working on hafnium and TF-A projects. I have been a maintainer and developer of Trusted Firmware projects since 2019.... I work with Open Source Software group at Arm. Currently, I am working on hafnium and TF-A projects. I have been a maintainer and developer of Trusted Firmware projects since 2019. Based out of Austin, Texas. Read More

Luca Weiss works as Android & Linux Kernel Engineer at Fairphone working on extending the software lifespan of phones, enabling them to last longer. He is also maintaining and cont... Luca Weiss works as Android & Linux Kernel Engineer at Fairphone working on extending the software lifespan of phones, enabling them to last longer. He is also maintaining and contributing to many open source projects such as postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for phones, and contributes various patches to the Linux kernel. Website: https://lucaweiss.eu – Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@z3ntu Read More

Serban spent over 13 years working on Android at Google and Arm. He contributed to porting Android to 64-bit and led product management for the Arm Memory Tagging, Android Runtime... Serban spent over 13 years working on Android at Google and Arm. He contributed to porting Android to 64-bit and led product management for the Arm Memory Tagging, Android Runtime and Native, Android Memory Safety and Android Virtualization. In his last two years at Google he led Android's Longevity and Regulation programs, working closely with key Android OEMs and EU regulators. In 2024, he left Google to co-found source.dev with fellow ex-Googler David Brazdil. Their mission is to make developing and maintaining device codebases more efficient through AI-native DevOps tooling. Read More

Mukesh is a Linux Kernel BSP Engineer at Qualcomm, where he plays a pivotal role in developing and supporting the Linux kernel for Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. At Qualcomm, Mukesh... Mukesh is a Linux Kernel BSP Engineer at Qualcomm, where he plays a pivotal role in developing and supporting the Linux kernel for Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. At Qualcomm, Mukesh collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, including hardware, architecture, and test engineers, to ensure seamless kernel deliverables from the presilicon to post-silicon phases of the SoC. He helps with fixing stability issues in both downstream and upstream drivers and optimizing the performance of the Linux kernel. He has been involved in upstreaming downstream fixes and features like Minidump and has contributed to resolving multiple core kernel issues across various subsystems. His expertise in debugging using tools like T32 and gdb, along with his proficiency in tracing and performance analysis, allows him to identify and resolve kernel bottlenecks efficiently. Read More

Zhaofeng Chen is a principal security researcher at CertiK, specializing in Web3 infrastructure security, confidential computing, system security, and mobile security. He has deliv... Zhaofeng Chen is a principal security researcher at CertiK, specializing in Web3 infrastructure security, confidential computing, system security, and mobile security. He has delivered talks at security conferences such as Zer0Con, POC, and CanSecWest. He has expertise in researching both offense and defense techniques. Notably, he is the core contributor to Apache Teaclave(incubator) projects, enabling developing Rust Applications in various TEE. He has over 30 CVEs in system security acknowledged by major tech giants such as Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Read More

Roberto Bagnara is professor of Computer Science at the University of Parma and Software Verification Expert and Evangelist at BUGSENG. He coauthored more than 40 papers, in intern... Roberto Bagnara is professor of Computer Science at the University of Parma and Software Verification Expert and Evangelist at BUGSENG. He coauthored more than 40 papers, in international journals and conference proceedings, on programming languages, static analysis and other techniques for software verification. He is a member of the MISRA C and MISRA SQM Working Groups and of the ISO standardization working group for the C programming language. Read More

Hauwei Kunpeng Security Expert, focus on Confidential Computing.

With over a decade of experience in open source technologies, Embedded Systems, Linux, and Android mobile OS, I have honed my skills across various domains, from kernel to middlewa... With over a decade of experience in open source technologies, Embedded Systems, Linux, and Android mobile OS, I have honed my skills across various domains, from kernel to middleware. My expertise includes Boot Time Optimization, Custom OS design based on Linux, and Factory Test builds for Android, Linux, Tizen, and ChromeOS. Specialties: Embedded Linux, Kernel, Android, Android customization, Boot Time optimization, Custom OS Design based on Linux, Middleware, Build and Integration, bitbake, open embedded, bootloader, Tizen, ChromeOS, GIT, Shell scripting. Currently, I am engaged in the Linux Kernel bring-up for Qualcomm SoCs. Read More

Takahiro Kawashima is a software engineer at Fujitsu. He has been involved in the field of HPC since 2007 and is currently working primarily on Flang (the Fortran compiler frontend... Takahiro Kawashima is a software engineer at Fujitsu. He has been involved in the field of HPC since 2007 and is currently working primarily on Flang (the Fortran compiler frontend in the LLVM Project). Read More

Felix is the technical lead of the KleidiAI library. Previously at Arm, he led optimization efforts on Cortex-M CPUs for the CMSIS-NN library. Over the years, Felix has specialized... Felix is the technical lead of the KleidiAI library. Previously at Arm, he led optimization efforts on Cortex-M CPUs for the CMSIS-NN library. Over the years, Felix has specialized in the wireless domain, focusing on software design and optimization for memory and cycle constrained systems. Read More

Linux Kernel engineer primarily supporting core kernel frameworks and Android Bootloader on Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets.

Pirama Arumuga Nainar leads the Android LLVM Team at Google with interests spanning compiler optimizations, code health, and developer tools. During his time at Google, Pirama has... Pirama Arumuga Nainar leads the Android LLVM Team at Google with interests spanning compiler optimizations, code health, and developer tools. During his time at Google, Pirama has been part of the Android LLVM team with the mission of bringing the performant and modern tools from the Clang/LLVM ecosystem to Android. Pirama has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he worked on software fault isolation using statistical analysis of field traces. Prior to Google, Pirama worked as a Performance Engineer at Oracle. Read More

Shefali Kamal is a Software Engineering Manager at FUJITSU-MONAKA Software R&D Unit, HPC AI Lab, Fujitsu Research of India Private Limited, Bengaluru. She is deeply engaged in the... Shefali Kamal is a Software Engineering Manager at FUJITSU-MONAKA Software R&D Unit, HPC AI Lab, Fujitsu Research of India Private Limited, Bengaluru. She is deeply engaged in the research and development of confidential computing architecture tailored for Arm high-performance secure computing. Currently, Shefali is focused on developing the CCA software stack for FUJITSU-MONAKA, a cutting-edge 2nm Arm-based CPU set to be launched in 2027. Read More

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining the Linu... Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining the Linux Foundation ten years ago, she has launched the Zephyr and ELISA Projects, among others. Read More

Nikhil Gupta is a Senior Software Engineer in the ML Infrastructure Software team, specializing in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and optimizing machine learning workloads for Ar... Nikhil Gupta is a Senior Software Engineer in the ML Infrastructure Software team, specializing in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and optimizing machine learning workloads for Arm® Neoverse™ servers. He works on integrating advanced performance enhancements into leading ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX focusing on developing production-level modules for neural network optimization. His work enables efficient, scalable, and high-performance GenAI deployments on Arm® infrastructure. Read More

Staff Software Engineer

As a software product manager, I am working on AI, IoT and Power topics in Arm. More than 15 years experience in the industry and 11 products in my portfolio, I am always ready to... As a software product manager, I am working on AI, IoT and Power topics in Arm. More than 15 years experience in the industry and 11 products in my portfolio, I am always ready to share my experience with the ecosystem and influenced by the trends and creative work in my daily life. Read More

I am a Principal Software Engineer working with Arm for the past 11+ years leading and line managing the TF-A sub-team in Austin. I am involved with the Trusted Firmware project fr... I am a Principal Software Engineer working with Arm for the past 11+ years leading and line managing the TF-A sub-team in Austin. I am involved with the Trusted Firmware project from 2019 and been leading the TF-A LTS maintainership efforts for Arm along with other maintainers from partners like NVIDIA, Google, ST Micro etc. I am also leading the security and errata mitigations of various CPUs within the TF-A project. Prior to the TF-A project, I was involved with leading, architecting and implementing a customizable architectural verification tool for the Arm CPU memory subsystem. Before Arm, I worked with Texas Instruments leading the Microprocessor subsystem RTL/gate level verification and Silicon validation for various generations of OMAP SoCs, unit and top-level RTL verification of L1 and L2 memory subsystems etc. Read More

Trusted Firmware contributor for NVIDIA platforms and maintainer for the TF-A and TF-A LTS programs.