Facebook’s Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn’t appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel’s senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta.
Earlier this month I wrote about longtime Intel Linux kernel engineer Kirill Shutemov leaving the company after 14 years. His contributions to the Linux kernel on Intel’s behalf can’t be understated with being a maintainer of Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) that is now important to their confidential computing play on Xeon, he’s also worked on Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) and many other Linux kernel memory management related features over the past fourteen years. His contributions to the upstream Linux kernel itself even pre-date his Intel employment by nearly a decade in before that working on the ARM port for ALT Linux and other Linux kernel work.
After leaving Intel two weeks ago, Shutemov publicly announced that he is now employed by Meta as a Linux kernel software engineer out of London.
He’s now working at Meta as a Linux kernel software engineer alongside the increasingly long list of other active Linux kernel developers and several maintainers. This can be chalked up as a win for the open-source community at large with Shutemov’s contributions to Linux memory management and other areas of the kernel hopefully continuing and with Meta not tied to any particular silicon vendor. Via his personal email address he is also still the listed upstream maintainer of the Intel Trust Domain Extensions code in the Linux kernel.
