Kate Stewart
Vice President Of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKate Stewart is a veteran technology leader with over 30 years of system software and tools experience and a specialty in dependable embedded Linux systems, currently serving as Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation. She has a strong track record of shipping complex releases—from Ubuntu milestones to silicon bring-up for Power Architecture—and has led international, cross-functional teams spanning development, QA, and open source communities. Kate excels at pragmatically integrating proprietary technology with open source ecosystems, establishing legal compliance and release processes that scale across global organizations. Her background includes founding and technical leadership in SPDX and deep experience harmonizing ABI and tooling across vendors, a less-obvious thread that underpins many of her interoperability successes. Based in Austin, she combines hands-on engineering roots with strategic product and program leadership shaped by decades of embedded and open source collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of ManitobaMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (117)
ontology10
sbom10
zephyr-rtos10
specification10
bluetooth10
attestation10
embedded10
combinations10
markdown10
ietf10
git-repository10
compliance-automation10
scalable10
infiniband10
tower10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elisa-tech/wg-medical-devices
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
work area for analysis of medical devices
Contributions:21 reviews, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 6 months
medical-devicesmedical
spdx/spdx-adoption
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Keeping list of projects that are using SPDX headers, and those that are able to generate SPDX documents.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 months
headersspdxablekeeping
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