Amid Intel’s ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there’s been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company.
Kirill Shutemov has left Intel. After 14 years working at Intel on various areas of the Linux kernel, he’s leaving the company. Most recently Shutemov was working on areas like Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) and other memory management areas within the kernel. He was also heavily involved with Intel’s TDX upstream enablement for Trust Domain Extensions. Plus over the past fourteen years various other projects and more in contributing to the mainline Linux kernel for Intel.
I became curious earlier this week after this patch series by Kirill Shutemov where he was updating his email address to no longer use his Intel email address but rather his kernel.org email address. At least for now Kirill Shutemov is still serving as the official maintainer of the Trust Domain Extensions code within the mainline kernel albeit now from his personal email address.
Yesterday he confirmed my suspicions from that patch series that he was leaving Intel. He confirmed on LinkedIn that it was his last day at Intel after 14 years at the company working on Linux. He will be joining another company at the end of the month. We’ll see where he is heading to and hopefully continuing his Linux expertise.