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Talk Intermediate

What are you running on that computer?

Approved
Session Description

This is a talk about systems programming. It is meant to excite students and new engineers about low-level systems programming and the opportunity it presents.


It will walk you through:


  • what is systems programming?
  • why more people should do it?
  • how is it related to FOSS?
  • how students can get started while studying?
  • what is the market opportunity in the face of AI?

Session Categories

FOSS

Speakers

amit kucheria
Director | Qualcomm

Amit is the Director of Engineering at Qualcomm and has been found dabbling in the upstream Linux community in the areas of power, performance and thermal management. He is, on occasion, found lost in the Zephyr RTOS community too.


In the last decade, built a company that offers turnkey electronics design and manufacturing services (mbedrock.com), led the Power Management working group at Linaro, helped lead the 96boards.org effort to bring powerful developer boards at low-cost to the software community and helped several SoC vendors to work with the upstream community and help themselves build more maintainable software along the way.


His main hobby these days is to learn to grow his own food.
amit kucheria

Reviews

Reviewer #1 Rejected
Very vague, and please don't inject AI into everything for gods sake
Reviewer #2 Rejected
This is a really good beginner friendly talk - would suit well with the audience.
Reviewer #3 Approved
Reviewer #4 Approved