Kernel Hacker
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Christoph Hellwig has been working with and on the Linux kernel since 1999. In addition he is or was involved with various other Open Source projects. After a number of smaller network administration and programming jobs he worked for Caldera's German development subsidiary on various kernel and user level aspects of the OpenLinux distribution. Since 2004 he has been running his own consulting business specializing in Linux file systems and storage, but also working on virtualization and the RISC-V open source instruction set. He is an active participant in the NVMe technical working group and the IEFT Network File System Version 4 working group. He is one of the maintainers of the NVMe driver in Linux, and one of the busiest contributors to the Linux kernel. Christoph Hellwig has worked for well known customers such as Dell, Facebook, IBM, NetApp, Red Hat, Silicon Graphics, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Western Digital and various startups.