Protected: My Kernel (and Compiler) Work This Year — Jan-Sep 2026

Gustavo A. R. Silva works full-time as an upstream Linux kernel engineer focused on hardening and proactive security. For nearly a decade, he has worked on fixing a wide variety of bugs and strengthening the Linux kernel's security. His work is supported by the Linux Foundation and the Alpha-Omega project. He is a member of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project and a regular speaker at Kernel Recipes and Open Source Summit. He has also presented at Linux Security Summit, Lund LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers Conference, Everything Open, the University of Adelaide, and Okayama University. Additionally, he has been an invited speaker at the Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l’Information et des Communications (SSTIC). View all posts by Gustavo A. R. Silva →