Stefan Schmidt is a FOSS contributor for 16+ years by now. During this time he worked on different projects and different layers of the Linux ecosystem. From bootloader and Kernel over build systems for embedded to user interfaces. He was serving as technical steering committee member of OpenEmbedded during the merge with the Yocto project, helped porting a 2.6 kernel to some early smartphones and is the release manager of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries as well as co-maintainer of the Linux IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem.

After many years as freelancer and long time member of the Samsung Open Source Group he recently joined Huawei's newly founded Open Source Technology Center.