Scott James Remnant
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Scott James Remnant | |
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Born | Sussex, England | 18 July 1980
Occupation | Software engineer |
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Website | www |
Scott James Remnant (born 18 July 1980) is an open source software engineer. Scott served as a long-time Debian developer until 2006 and worked as "Ubuntu Developer Manager" on the Ubuntu Linux distribution at Canonical Ltd. He now works at Google as a Technical Lead on Bluetooth Systems.
Work
- Ran the Linux humor website Segfault.org
- While a Debian developer, Scott maintained several important packages, notably libtool and dpkg
- Is the author of the Upstart initialization system
- Developed the Planet weblog aggregation system
- He served on the Ubuntu Technical Board until October 2011
Personal life
Scott is openly gay, and believes it important to be open about it to support others in the open source community.