Steven Whitehouse currently manages the RHEL Filesystems team at Red Hat. His introduction to Linux kernel development came in 1993 when he wrote a small patch for AX.25, he is also the previous maintainer of Linux DECnet and the GFS2 Filesystem. Steven has spoken at a number of conferences, including IEEE MMSP Workshops, UKUUG, OLS and previous Linux Foundation events. Steven holds a PhD in Error Resilient Image Compression from Cambridge University, and is based in Swansea, UK.