Speaker - Davin McCall

Davin is a software engineer with a background ranging from telecommunications, to programming education, to software analysis and security. He enjoys programming at the systems level, and has made minor contributions to open-source projects such as the Linux kernel, Mesa 3D graphics library, and Wine (Windows compatibility layer), but is probably best known in the open-source world for his own "Dinit" service-manager software, an alternative to Systemd (and the other less-prevalent init systems) that is now used in the Chimera Linux distribution. He currently works for Oracle Labs in Brisbane, in the area of program analysis for security. He develops tools for both static analysis and runtime application self-protection. Outside of computer software and hardware, his interests include nature and the environment. He loves rock climbing and his preferred mode of transport is bicycle.