Career
Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux"s hardware hotplug and device management subsystems. 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 Architecture Linux. He is currently employed by Red Hat, Incorporated. and previously has worked for Novell.
Kay Sievers grew up in Eastern Germany and nowadays resides in Berlin, Germany.