Kay Sievers

Kay Sievers
Nationality	German
Occupation	Software engineer
Known for	udev, systemd, Gummiboot

Kay Sievers is a German computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of Linux,^[1] systemd^[2] and the Gummiboot EFI bootloader.^[3] Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.^[4] In 2012, together with Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind Fedora's merging of the /lib, /bin and /sbin file-system trees into /usr, a simplification which other distributions such as Arch Linux have since adopted.^[5]

In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel.^[6]

Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019,^[3] Sievers previously worked for Novell.^[2][7]

Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany^[8] and nowadays^[when?] resides in Berlin, Germany.^{[9][failed verification]}

References

1. Sievers, Kay, udev 150, LWN.net, retrieved 2012-10-08
2. Lennart Poettering, "FAQs", systemd, 0pointer, retrieved 2012-10-08
3. Fabian, Scherschel, Gummiboot is an EFI bootloader that "just works", The H, archived from the original on 7 December 2013, retrieved 2012-10-08
4. Kay Sievers, Linux Plumbers Conference, archived from the original on 2014-02-03, retrieved 2012-10-08
5. Brockmeier, Joe, The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris [sic] into /usr, linuxfoundation.org, retrieved 2022-10-05
6. Jon Gold (3 April 2014). "Linus Torvalds suspends key Linux developer: Kernel panic as Systemd dev pokes the bear". Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
7. Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop (PDF), retrieved 2012-10-08
8. Kay, Sievers, 25 years now since I left the awful East German dictatorship, archived from the original on 2012-12-17, retrieved 2012-10-08
9. vRfY.org Whois Record, retrieved 2012-10-08