Webinar
My Life as a Linux Kernel Developer and Maintainer with Julia Lawall
June 17, 2026 | 08:00 AM PDT (UTC-7)
Join us for an interactive, complimentary Maintainer Session with Julia Lawall
Julia Lawall and Shuah Khan will talk about Julia's experience as a kernel developer and maintainer, taking questions from the attendees. Julia will share what works and what doesn’t for her and strategies, interpersonal and technical skills and mindset that help her stay engaged for a longer term.
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Julia Lawall
Senior Researcher, Inria Paris
Speaker
Julia Lawall is a senior researcher at Inria Paris. Previously, she was on the faculty of the University of Copenhagen. She was one of the original designers of the Coccinelle program matching and transformation system that she has been maintaining for the last 20 years. Coccinelle has been used in thousands of Linux kernel commits, to find bugs and to perform widespread modifications. Following the evolution of the Linux kernel, there is now a version of Coccinelle for Rust. Currently, Julia Lawall's main interests are on the correctness and performance of operating system code. In this, she is primarily focusing on the scheduler. Julia Lawall is a former coordinator of Outreachy for the Linux kernel and has mentored a number of Linux kernel interns. She has been a member of the Linux kernel TAB since 2024.