Theodore Ts'o is the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and started working with Linux in September, 1991. He previously served as CTO for the Linux Foundation, and is currently employed at
Google. Theodore is a Debian Developer, and is the maintainer of the ext4 file system in the Linux kernel. He is the maintainer and
original author of the e2fsprogs userspace utilities for the ext2,
ext3, and ext4 file systems.