Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning several companies in the technology industry. Kate currently holds the position of Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation, a role they have been in since January 2021. Prior to this, they served as the Sr. Director of Strategic Programs at The Linux Foundation from June 2015 to January 2021.

Before joining The Linux Foundation, Kate worked at Linaro as the Director of Product Management from January 2013 to May 2015. Kate was responsible for managing product development and strategy during their time there.

Kate also has experience at Canonical, where they worked as the Ubuntu Release Manager from August 2010 to November 2012. In this role, they managed the release of Ubuntu versions 10.04.2 and 10.10.

Prior to their time at Canonical, Kate held various positions at Freescale Semiconductor, including Power Software Architecture Manager from an unspecified start date to August 2010, and PowerPC Software Enablement Manager from an unspecified start date to an unspecified end date. In these roles, they managed teams of software architects and developers in the development of Power Architecture software for Linux, U-Boot, and GNU toolchain.

Before Freescale, Kate worked at Motorola as a Development Manager from an unspecified start date to an unspecified end date. Kate led the development of embedded PowerPC products, including the initial development of Linux, U-Boot, and GNU toolchain.

Kate's earlier work experience includes a role as a Developer at SES, inc. from an unspecified start date to an unspecified end date, where they worked on the design and implementation of a visual computer language for parallel and distributed processing. Kate also worked as a Software Engineer at IBM from an unspecified start date to an unspecified end date. Additionally, they were a Programmer Analyst at Intelligence Services Pty. Ltd. from May 1987 to October 1987.

Overall, Kate Stewart has a wealth of experience in the technology industry, particularly in the areas of software development, product management, and strategic program management.

Kate Stewart earned their Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba from 1981 to 1985. Later, they pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo from 1985 to 1987.