Moving from Management to Individual Contributor, a journey
summary
Red Hat builds a safety-focused Linux for cars that must make a braking decision in 500 microseconds and compete with QNX in 98% of cars. The project hires ~250 people, pays an assessor firm roughly $100k per six months for functional-safety evidence, and composes OS images from RPMs through Brew, Fedora CoreOS and Podman to produce Rivos and Ryvos developer tooling. Work produces Podman Machine/Desktop prototypes and a plan to train 100,000 automotive developers; a manager is moving back to individual-contributor coding to finish the platform.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:51Open source in automotive safety
- 10:05Linux for car safety
- 19:42Why I became a manager and loved it
- 26:45Managing engineers and tools
- 33:07Returning to IC role
- 38:35Q&A
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