Kay Sievers

Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.^[4] In 2012, together with Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind Fedora's merging of the /lib, /bin and /sbin file-system trees into /usr, a simplification which other distributions such as Arch Linux have since adopted.^[5]

In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel.^[6][7]

Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019.^[3] Sievers previously worked for Novell.^[2][8]

Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany^[9] and nowadays^[when?] resides in Berlin, Germany.^{[10][failed verification]}