Dr. Daniel Bristot De Oliveira, a professional affiliate at the RETIS lab of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, passed away all too soon at age 37.
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Daniel earned his joint Ph.D. from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in 2020. He was a Linux kernel contributor working mainly in real-time related subsystems. He was the maintainer of the Runtime Verification subsystem, the latency/noise-related tracers in the Linux kernel, and the rtla (Real-time Linux Analysis) toolset. He was also a reviewer for the scheduler code, mainly regarding the SCHED_DEADLINE changes.
He was the organizer of events in the Linux community, including several editions of the Real-time Micro-conference at The Linux Plumbers and Linux Conference Europe, and the Scheduling Micro-conference at The Linux Plumbers.
He also published papers in the academic community, including contributions to top-notch journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Computers and the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS).
He was a respected real-time systems scientific community member and served on the technical program committees for several top-notch conferences, including RTSS, RTAS, and ECRTS.
Before joining RedHat, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Intelbras.
Daniel was a positive, always smiling person, full of joy, and always ready to support others. He was an extremely talented kernel developer, scientist, and hard worker.
He will be missed.