Colin King

Account namecolinianking
OpenPGP fingerprint 7062 DAA4 F001 B9C6 6167 00CF 68C2 87DF C6A8 0226 1 Endorsements
Status Debian Maintainer since 2013-09-07

Short Biography

Colin King is currently a Principle Engineer for Intel, working on x86 code optimization and. They have been a Debian maintainer since May 2014 and maintain over 25 packages. Over 4,400 janitorial commits to Linux Kernel, working across multiple subsystems fixing minor bugs found through static analysis. Author of the Dell All-In-One WMI Linux driver and ARM Versatile PCI driver. Has made over 29,000 commits to various open source projects. Keen focus on Kernel regression testing and stress testing (authored stress-ng). ACPI expertise (Authored the Firmware Test Suite). Keen advocate on using Static Analysis tools to drive up code quality. Author of several Linux userspace tools used in multiple Linux distros and *BSD UNIX. Focused on analysis, code quality, testing and striving for bug free code.

Personal history

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