Mike Snitzer

For over a decade, Snitzer has been the maintainer of the upstream Linux kernel’s Device Mapper (DM) subsystem. He has presented at a number of technical and open source conferences, including The Linux Foundation’s End User Summit, and the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management & BPF Summit.

Additionally, Snitzer spent 15 years at Red Hat as a Senior Principal Software Engineer, where he was a member of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) kernel storage team, and the upstream Linux and RHEL kernel maintainer of the DM subsystem. He also served at IBRIX, Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer, Kernel, where he developed and maintained the company’s physical file system, and maintained IBRIX’s Linux kernel.