Jon Masters
 
 
 
 
Jonathan Masters is a British Linux kernel engineer working for Red Hat, where he
works on the real-time kernel team, and on a variety of other projects. Jon made U.K.
history by beginning his first college degree at the tender age of 13. He has been using
and has been involved with Linux for most of his life. He has worked on a diverse variety
of embedded Linux projects in different capacities—as an independent contractor, an
employee of a large scientific research company, and at a well-known embedded Linux
vendor. Jon has written several books, many technical articles, and maintains the
module-init-tools package used by the Linux kernel.
Jon lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and enjoys travel, hacking embedded devices,
hiking, U.S. history, obscure legal texts, and any opportunity for random craziness.