Coly Li

Linux Kernel Maintainer and Kernel Architect at FiiO NAS

He graduated in 2001 from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications with a major in Management Engineering and is currently working as a Kernel Architect on the Feiniu NAS team. He is a long-time active Linux kernel developer and the maintainer of the mainline Linux kernel bcache subsystem. In 2010, he became the first engineer to join and establish the Taobao Kernel Group (the predecessor of the current Alibaba Kernel Team). In 2015, he left Alibaba and returned to SUSE Labs to continue front-line kernel development. Before joining Alibaba to build the Taobao Kernel Group, he worked at the Lenovo Research Institute’s Server Systems Research Laboratory, SUSE China R&D Center, and the SUSE Labs Kernel Group, contributing to a number of Linux kernel open-source projects including openIPMI, Ext4, OCFS2, MD raid, and bcache.