People

Aaron Bockelie
Bus master flex and Home Assistant wrangler.

Aaron Honeycutt
Techie, Community Guy, Gamer. Happiness Engineer @ System76.

Alan Pope
Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, co-host of User Error and Ubuntu Podcast, father, husband, cat lover & a geek through and through.

Alecks Gates
The "Official" Podcasting 2.0 consultant.

Aleix Pol
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez has been collaborating with KDE since 2007. He started working in software development in the KDE Education area and KDevelop. Aleix joined the KDE e.V. board of directors in 2014. In his day-job, he is employed by BlueSystems where he has worked with other parts of the community including Plasma and Qt.

Alessandro Castellani
Digital Unicorn, Digital Educator: http://bit.ly/2pnkrck , Lead Developer @ http://ritualmusic.com

Alex Rodriguez
Alex works as a security consultant (pentester). He loves Linux and Automation! elreydetoda on GitHub

Alfred Neumayer
Born and raised in Austria, enjoys making music and writing software.

Andries Faassen
Most know me by my nickname Quindor, I’m a tech enthousiast living somewhere in the southern part of the Netherlands in Europe!

Andy Grover
Hacks on Stratis Storage at Red Hat, and has other creative dreams too. Bass. Rustlang. Mostly cat and political retweets these days.

Anthony James
Founder/CEO @ LinuxAcademy.com we're hiring! - Co-host @ ScaleYourCode.com

Avery Pennarun
Avery is CEO and Co-founder of Tailscale. He spent the previous 8 years at Google where he launched Google's first P2P payments transfer for Google Wallet, spearheaded the development of Google Fiber, and provided strategic analysis for several high-profile Alphabet projects.

Barton George
Founder & lead Project Sputnik (dev systems). Employed by Dell -- focused on Linux, developers & Open Source. These insightful opinions are my own.

Bernhard Landauer
Manjaro Linux Developer

Brandon Bruce
Director of Customer Support at Linux Academy, former professional kitchen chef and cook, all around expert at putting out fires.

Brian Benchoff
Embedded Journalist and Insecurity Researcher

Carl George
Engineer at RedHat working on EPEL, CentOS and Fedora. Texas forever.

Carl Richell
Founder and CEO of System76. Maker of Linux computers and Pop!_OS.

Caroline Keep
2018 TES national new teacher of the year, BIMA 100, Liverpool MakeFest founder and creator of the Spark Penketh Makerspace

Cassidy James Blaede
UX Architect & Open SourceUX Architect at System76 Cofounder at elementary LLC. Contributor

Catherine Kretzschmar
Catherine, among many others, is a professional music teacher, coding bootcamp enlistee, and humanist celebrant. Catherine is a good friend of the Jupiter Broadcasting family and wife of Alex Kretzschmar, co-host of Self-Hosted.

Christian F.K. Schaller
Christian Schaller is the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment & more at Red Hat. He's been there for nearly 10 years.

Dalton Durst
Development Manager at UBports

Dan Johansen
Project Lead on The Majaro ARM Project

Dan Lynch
Trying to change the world 1 line at a time with Sed & Awk. Comic book nerd, podcaster, geek, musician & Merc With A Mouth

Danielle Foré
Founder & CEO of elementary OS.

Dave Jones
Keeping the lights at podcastindex.org

DM
A System Administrator by day, a Linux, OSS and PowerShell enthusiast by night. The creator of the PowerShellOnLinux community, where people can come and learn more about PowerShell scripting and automation.

Dr Laura Cowen
IBM-er, Doctor of Psychology, developer advocate, Park runner and ex-Ubuntu podcast-er.

Dustin Krysak
Historically an open source consumer (Enterprise operations), now also an open source contributor. An active Ubuntu Budgie team member since December of 2016 assisting with infrastructure, community, packaging, etc. Also a co-host of the Vancouver Linux Desktop User Group.

Dusty Mabe
Linux and open source enthusiast. Hacking away in upstream communities with a focus on container tools and Project Atomic. Married to

Elan Feingold
CTO and Co-Founder at Plex, Inc. Elan has been involved with the creation of innovative technology for over a decade. As Vice President of Technology of MusicStream, he lead the creation of a sophisticated Internet music platform which integrated music and social networking. Prior to that, Elan managed a team at Aravox Technologies responsible for developing software for Aravox’s proprietary VoIP firewall platform, and later assisted in the transfer of technology after Aravox was purchased by Alcatel. Before Aravox, Elan worked as Director of Engineering at AetherWorks creating a groundbreaking VoIP platform which unified ATM, ISDN, and other telephony protocols. Additionally, he was responsible for the design and creation of a cross-platform universal messaging client. During his time there, AetherWorks was acquired by Nx Networks. Elan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Elizabeth K. Joseph
Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Developer Advocate at IBM focused on IBM Z (mainframes!). Previously, she spent time working on Apache Mesos, and four years as a systems engineer on the OpenStack Infrastructure team and six years on the Ubuntu Community Council and has held various roles in the Ubuntu community and is the co-author of The Official Ubuntu Book, 8th and 9th Editions. At home in San Francisco, she sits on the Board of Directors for Partimus.org, a non-profit in the Bay Area providing Linux-based computers to schools in need.

Emma Marshall
Happiness Manager at System76

Eric Hendricks
The IT Guy --- Open Source Warrior, Linux Systems Engineer, Podcaster, Concert Lighting Designer Maintainer - Jupiter Broadcasting Peertube Social Media Coordinator - GNOME Foundation

Ethan Lee
Linux porter, developer of FNA, FAudio. FEZ, Transistor, Celeste, Streets of Rage 4, Dust: AET, Eversion, Apotheon, Rogue Legacy, VVVVVV, Dream Daddy, Owlboy and more.

Gary Kramlich
Open Source Developer, Twitch Affiliate, Pidgin Lead Developer, IM Freedom Secretary.

Guus Sliepen
Guus is the main developer of tinc, a VPN daemon that automatically creates a full mesh between multiple nodes. He is also a Debian Developer, and is working on various other FOSS projects.

Hayden Barnes
Developer Advocate for Ubuntu on WSL and Hyper-V at Canonical. Microsoft guy at a Linux company. Started Pengwin. Former attorney. chown $(id -u -n) $opinions

Heather Ellsworth
Heather is a Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. She is also a former experimental high energy physics researcher at CERN working on the Atlas Detector and Higgs boson.

Hector Martin
Hello! I’m Hector Martin and like to go by the nickname “marcan”. I currently live in Tokyo, Japan as an IT/security consultant by day and a hacker by night.

Ian Santopietro
Pop_OS User, Developer, Designer. GNOME Foundation Member.

Ilan Rabinovitch
VP, Product & Technical Community at DataDog, recovering SysAdmin, SCALE Conference Chair, and other FL/OSS fun.

Jack Aboutboul
Jack Aboutboul is a member of the Red Hat Community Architecture team and a long-time Fedora community member working closely with Fedora Marketing, Fedora Ambassadors, and is Community Manager for AlmaLinux.

Jackie DeVore
reluctant artist & writer. frequent gamer & bunny lover. often covered in tattoos & last night's makeup. one third of horror podcast Sirens of Scream. loves ghosts.

Jacob Roecker
Jacob Roecker currently holds a position as an IT project manager, is a Bronze Star Medal recipient, a graduate of Utah State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communication, an Eagle Scout, and was honored as Utah State University's "Man of the Year" in 2008. Also a hobby author and creator of ParkingThought.

Jason Spisak
Award Winning Actor in Games, Film, Television, and Animation Jason Spisak has brought to life hundreds of characters across all genres and media

JDM_WAAAT
Independent tech YouTuber, reviewer, writer, and owner of http://serverbuilds.net

Jeff Fortin Tam
Principal of idéemarque, GNOME contributor. Ex-Pitivi, ex-Collabora biz dev, ex-Purism advisor, SF bay area & worldwide. Maintainer of Getting Things GNOME.

Jeff Geerling
K8s, Ansible, Raspberry Pi, photography, tech, DIY, tools, etc. It's more fun to do ALL THE THINGS!

Jeremy Soller
System76 Principal Engineer, Redox OS BDFL, and Rust fanatic.

Jeremy Stott
Writes software for all the things, with an interest in security and public speaking.

Jérôme Laban
Jerome Laban has been programming since 1998, mainly involved in .NET and C# development as teacher, trainer, consultant in France. He is the CTO of Uno Platform, a framework trying to improve the development cycle of cross-platform apps using Windows, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly using Mono and Xamarin.

Jérôme Laban
.NET architect at nventive on Windows, Xamarin[iOS|Android|MacOS], WebAssembly / Uno Platform

Jim Salter
Jim Salter is an author, public speaker, small business owner, mercenary sysadmin, and father of three—not necessarily in that order. He got his first real taste of open source by running Apache on his very own dedicated FreeBSD 3.1 server back in 1999, and he's been a fierce advocate of FOSS ever since. He's the author of the Sanoidhyperconverged infrastructure project. He's contributed to websites such as Ars Technica on everything from Wi-Fi to NAS distributions to next-gen filesystems.

Jonathan Corbet
Jonathan Corbet is the editor of LWN.net (formerly known as Linux Weekly News) one of the principal online news publications that covers Linux and free software development. Corbet is also a Linux developer and maintainer of the documentation subsystem as well as several device drivers.

Jonathan Panozzo
Chief Strategy Officer at Lime Technology.

Josh Lowe
Creator of Edublocks and Python developer extrordinaire, editor of Micro:bit magazine and co-host of MintCast.

Joshua Strobl
Open source developer. Experience Lead of the Solus Project

Jscar_Hawk
Platform TAM Red Hat. Passions: Privacy, Security & Hardware, Raspberry Pi, Steam Deck, & 3D printing.

Kyle Rankin
Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism. Former Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal. He is the author of Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks, DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks and Ubuntu Hacks, and also a contributor to a number of other O'Reilly books. Rankin speaks frequently on security and open-source software including at BsidesLV, O'Reilly Security Conference, OSCON, SCALE, CactusCon, Linux World Expo and Penguicon.

Lindsey Cross
Driven and innovative mechanical design engineer helping to create the next generation of products and robots. Has experience in rapid, but smart, prototyping. Designs mechanisms and gear trains to last. Takes product from ideas to mass production.

Lukasz Erecinski
Community Manager with Pine64

Major Hayden
Major is my first name, not a rank. Linux nerd working at RedHat. Delivers Dad jokes on demand. UTSA Alum '04. W5WUT on 6 & 20 meters.

Maria Komarova
UX Architect at System76

Marius Gripsgard
Living in the Ubuntu/Debian world, as a Opensource Developer! I speak c++! Lead developer at @UBports

Martin Wimpress
Passionate open source advocate, Linux 🐧 enthusiast & podcaster 🎤 Lives in 🇬🇧 with his wife & daughter. Works for @Canonical making @Ubuntu & @snapcraftio.

Mathieu Comandon
Founder of Lutris. Supporter of Open Source and things that don't break the internet.

Matt from Adventurous Way
Matt is British and grew up in the UK. He went to the University of York and stayed nearby after graduating as he loved the Yorkshire countryside and local community. Later he moved to London. Being closer to major international airports Matt visited 13 countries in one year by filling his weekends flying to some new European city. After that he moved to San Francisco Bay area for a new exciting job. Matt met his now wife while playing squash in San Francisco in 2014, just 10 days after Matt moved to the US.

Matthew Miller
Fedora Project Leader / Tepid change for the somewhat better! — Russ Allbery

Michael Aaron Murphy
Product Engineer at System7 and Pop!_OS Maintainer / Developer

Michael Larabel
Founder of Phoronix and lead developer of Phoronix Test Suite

Michael Tunnell
Podcaster / Content Creator for the Destination Linux Podcast. I'm also a Designer, Marketer, Writer, Open Sourcerer, Linux Enthusiast, and host of This Week in Linux.

Morgan Peterman
A colleague of Alex's at Red Hat. He's a Technical Account Manager working on Openshift and has an extensive RH based homelab...

Nate Graham
QA Manager at Blue Systems, and close follower of the KDE's Usability and Productivity goals.

Neal Gompa
Software Engineer. Linux systems aficionado and developer in @Fedora, @Mageia_org, and @openSUSE. DevOps Engineer at @datto. Views are my own.

Neil McGovern
Politico and geek, GNOME Executive Director, Cambridge CAMRA press officer, Ex-Debian Project Leader.

Noah J. Chelliah
In 2009 Noah gave up on traditional IT models and started Altispeed Technologies. Since 2009 Altispeed has leveraged open source technologies to provide creative cost saving solutions without sacrificing quality. As a former host of the Linux Action Show Noah couldn't let his passion wind down with the show so teamed up with Jupiter Broadcasting to bring you Ask Noah!

Nuritzi Sanchez
Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitLab, former GNOME Foundation President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and Founding Member of Endless, Inc.

paradigm
Creator of Bedrock Linux.

Paulus Schoutsen
Founder of Home Assistant.

Peter Adams
Photographer in Silicon Valley of Faces of Open Source, an on-going photographic documentation of people behind the development and advancement of the open source revolution.

Peter Ammon
Fish Shell Lead Dev

Peter Kretzman
Veteran IT executive, writer, speaker. Still codes. Author of the blog, 'CTO/CIO Perspectives: Intensely practical tips on information technology management.

Philip Müller
Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Manjaro, and CEO at Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG

Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, part-time academic and full-time gadget enthusiast based in Cambridge, England.

Rocco (BigDaddyLinux)
Rocco (BigDaddyLinux) hosts Bid Daddy Linux Live! (BDLL) and Linux Spotlight, and gives in many ways to the linux community.

Ryan Huber
Ryan leads the Security Operations team at Slack, creating and deploying tools focused on monitoring, authentication, secure communication, and operational resilience. He is a regular contributor to open source and an active member in many security collaboration groups.

Ryan Sipes
Community builder, organizer, technologist, open source enthusiast, and all-around rabble-rouser.

Sid Sijbrandij
Co-founder and CEO of GitLab. I like innovative projects and passionate people. Into Git, Rails, Ruby, remote work & macro economics.

Sohini Bianka Roy
Product Manager at Canonical.

Sri Ramkrishna
Seasoned GNOME community member, founder of Linux App Summit and Principle Ecosystems Engineer at ITRenew.

Stefan Schulte-Ortbeck
Hi there 👋

Stuart Langridge
Owner of Kryogenix Consulting, co-host of the Bad Voltage podcast. Digital consultancy, web strategy, web and mobile development.

Techno Tim
Software Engineer | Gamer | Twitch Streamer | Content Creator on YouTube | Homelab | 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 | Full Nerd

Theodore Dubois
Developer of the iSH app, a Linux shell for iOS.

Thomas Cameron
Thomas Cameron has been an IT Professional since 1993. He's worked with Linux at multinational financial services companies, transportation companies, manufacturing, and more. He's a Red Hat Certified Architect, and was a regional chief architect at Red Hat. He's currently on the Amazon Linux team at Amazon.

Tim Canham
Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Wendell Wilson
Technology and Computing are what it is all about.

Will Thompson
I maintain Bustle and Gnome Initial Setup, and sporadically contribute to various other bits and bobs around the GNOME ecosystem. When I’m at work, I’m Director of Platform at Endless OS Foundation. Unless otherwise specified, I don’t speak for them or any past employers, even if I’m discussing work I did for them. Outside work, I sometimes do other stuff and write about it.

Wim Taymans
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. C and Java programming, multimedia frameworks specialist. Specialties: GStreamer Multimedia framework lead designer

Zlatan Todorić
Systems Engineer/Project Manager at Shells.com. Ex-BlueSystems, Debian Developer, Free software/hardware hacker, anarchist, FSM priest, ex-CTO Purism, architect of PureOS.