Governing Board

Jan Altenberg has more than 20 years of experience in developing and maintaining Embedded Linux systems. Jan studied information technologies at the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart (Germany). From 2002 – 2006 he was involved in the OCEAN project, a European research project, which defined an open controller platform based on real-time Linux and real-time CORBA. From 2007 to 2019 he worked for Linutronix as a Consultant, Trainer and Head of Technical sales. From April 2019 to 2021 he worked as Open-Source Technology. Expert and Open-Source Compliance Officer for Continental Automotive GmbH. Since October 2021 Jan works as Senior Open Source Consultant and Embedded Systems Integrator at the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG and since 2024, he also serves on the OSADL board of directors. Jan is a frequent speaker at several conferences.

Linux user since 1995. Joined Red Hat in 2000 and started working on PREEMPT_RT in 2005, still working on the real-time kernel today.

Jan Kiszka is working as consultant, open source evangelist and Principal Key Expert Engineer in the Linux Expert Center at Siemens Technology. He is supporting Siemens businesses with adapting, enhancing or strategically driving open source as a platform for their product demands. He is maintaining several open source projects and is contributing to others, specifically in the area of real-time, virtualization, embedded Linux tooling.

Jon has worked in embedded space for over 30 years. He spent the first part of his career developing optimizing compilers for MPU and DSP architectures, with an emphasis on VLIW and SIMD optimizations.  He transitioned to managing the Linux kernel development for TI’s ARM Cortex-A based SoCs, increasing TI’s open source involvement and creating an upstream-first development culture.  His current role is managing TI’s software ecosystem strategy.

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