Speaker - Rohan McLure

Rohan is an open source hacker at IBM, working on Linux Kernel support for the Power architecture, and serving as the community maintainer for OpenSSL on Power. The unifying factor is the performance lens Rohan employs when viewing software security on enterprise platforms. With a mathematics and computer science background, Rohan has worked on HPC projects such as the Climate Modelling Alliance with California Institute of Technology, and now provides machine-optimised elliptic curve implementations in OpenSSL. Rohan's love for open source comes from the knowledge sharing that it permits - broadening the horizon of algorithms and hardware that programmers can reason with and apply to make the best possible software. Rohan has spoken before at the inaugural Everything Open in 2023, explaining the difficulty on 64-bit (or even bi-endian) kernels of supporting multiple syscall ABIs, and providing a window into the world of Linux Kernel development.