BSDCan2016 - v1.1.24a

BSDCan 2016
The Technical BSD Conference

Arun Thomas

Arun Thomas is an operating systems researcher and an open source developer. He got his first taste of BSD in 2002.

Arun is a Senior Principal Engineer at BAE Systems. He is currently leading a research collaboration with the University of Cambridge and Memorial University to create a new distributed tracing framework building on FreeBSD, DTrace, and clang/LLVM. He has contributed to several open-source projects over the years, including the MINIX 3 operating system as a core developer, the Gentoo Linux distribution as a Gentoo/Hardened and Gentoo/ARM developer, and the Linux kernel. Recently, he has been working on building the RISC-V software stack. He has given talks about open-source operating systems at ARM TechCon, the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), BSDCan, EuroBSDCon, FOSDEM, and the RISC-V Workshop.