Speaker - Paul McKenney

Paul E. McKenney is a software engineer at Meta Platforms, and has been coding for almost half a century, with more than half of that on multicore hardware. 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. Paul also is lead maintainer for the Linux-kernel memory model (LKMM), the kernel concurrency sanitizer (KCSAN), and the nolibc library. Paul previously worked for IBM LTC, Sequent Computer Systems, SRI International, himself, and the Oregon State University Computer Center, with his work having migrated from the upper reaches of the application stack to the lower reaches of the Linux kernel.