nationality article_title known_for image employer name occupation
german kay sievers
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kay sievers

kay sievers is a computer programmer , best known for developing the udev device manager of linux , systemd and the gummiboot efi boot loader .
kay sievers made major contributions to linux 's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems .
in 2012 , together with harald hoyer , sievers was the main driving force behind fedora 's merging of the / lib , / bin and / sbin file system trees into / usr , a simplification which has since been adopted by other distributions such as arch linux .
he is currently employed by red hat , inc. and previously has worked for novell .
kay sievers grew up in eastern germany and nowadays resides in berlin , germany .
