The QNX Kernel: Meet the Perps

Dan Dodge It all began with Dan: the original QNX developer, now president of QNX. The whole idea of the QNX operating system is pretty much Dan’s. Dan is the soul of the operating system. Recently Dan has architected the ETFS filesystem and wrote much of the code.	Peter "PeterV" van der Veen Current OS, and general QNX, Architect. Wrote the original QNX lib/c, process manager, and co-wrote the original kernel with Dan. Put the S & M in SMP.	Kirk Russel The orignal kernel tester. Now ascended to be QNX Test Architect. Legendary for his ablility to break other people's code.
Sebastien "Seb" Marineau-Mes Director of the operating system group. Recently wrote the latest optimziations for fast message passing. Knows pretty much everything.	Thomas "toh-ma" Fletcher Current architect of the Multimedia Engine product. Past architect of the Momentics IDE. Only person on the planet who actually understands sporadic scheduling.

However, the elder gods are busy running the universe. So the day-to-day operations of the Kernel is left to:

The Current Kernel Gods

Brian Stecher Memory Management Architect. Architect of the QNX source tree, build environment and make files. Knows everything else too. Would be an elder god except he’s in the code daily.	Colin Burgess Guru of lib/c, the debug interface and the instrumented kernel. Knows everything else too.	Shiv Nagarajan Guru of critical process monitoring; master of malloc. Knows everything else too.
Sunil Kittur Responsible for the ARM and SH SMP code. Has been mistaken for a guru on account of the hair and beard. Our secret agent in Kernow. (Did we mention our plans for world domination?)

Minor Demons and Imps

However some the QNX kernel guys are too new to have achived omniscient status:

Mike Kisel The Memory Partitioning guy.	Doug Bailey SH processor architecture guy. Actually capable of documenting how to build the kernel.	Attilla Danko The Adaptive Partitioning Scheduler guy.
Gordon Rice Our secret agent in San Jose. (Did we mention our plans for world domination?)	Peter Mitsis The filesystems guy.

Please do not feed the kernel developers.

The Ego Crushers

Testers are the scourge of the kernel developers. They’re actually developers themselves who specialize in writing test code.

Chris Travis

Marian Kos

Linda Deng

Scribe

Kaushik Das

Knowlege of the C language pretty much fully occupies our temporal lobes, meaning kernel developers communicate with grunts, wild gestures and macro invocations. So it’s up to Kaushik to translate the fevered ramblings of kernel developers into readable English.

Cat Herder

Steve Bergwerff

Steve has the unenviable task of managing all of the above -- except for the elder gods.