Vivek Goyal

Vivek Goyal is an Engineering Manager at Red Hat, where they lead the Virtualization Storage and Virtualization Firmware teams, focusing on technologies such as virtiofs and confidential computing. With over 16 years of experience at Red Hat and more than 20 years in open source development, Vivek has made significant contributions to the Linux kernel, containers, and virtualization. Their expertise includes core features like overlayfs and Kdump, and they serve as a core contributor and maintainer of the virtiofs filesystem. Vivek holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU).