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Kay Sievers is a computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of Linux, systemd and the Gummiboot EFI boot loader. Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems. However, in 2014 he was banned by Linus Torvalds from the Linux kernel, Torvalds claiming that he was creating bugs and not solving them.
In 2012, together with Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind Fedora's merging of the /lib, /bin and /sbin file system trees into /usr, a simplification which has since been adopted by other distributions such as Arch Linux.
He is currently employed by Red Hat, Inc. and previously has worked for Novell.
Kay Sievers grew up in Eastern Germany and nowadays resides in Berlin, Germany.