Mountain View, CA
Alison Chaiken is a software developer who rides bikes in Mountain View, CA. Her day job is maintaining the Linux kernel and writing operating-system-monitoring applications in C++ for Aurora Innovation. Alison has contributed upstream to u-boot, kernel, bazel and systemd and presented talks at Embedded Linux Conference, Usenix, linux.conf.au and Southern California Linux Expo. She has worked for more than a decade on vehicle software, including a half year in Germany, and is in her seventh year of German study. Alison's formal education was in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was exposed to the then-new GPL and emacs. Her web site is http://she-devel.com
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Matthew Garrett has written extensively about UEFI, so since he will also speak at linux.conf.au, I intentionally avoided the topic. While I've spent a lot of time with u-boot, I fear that I have not thoroughly investigated GRUB.