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Scott James Remnant

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Residence
  
San Francisco, CA

Role
  
Software Engineer

Name
  
Scott Remnant


Website
  
www.netsplit.com

Occupation
  
Software engineer

Employer
  
Google

Scott James Remnant

Born
  
18 July 1980 (age 44) (
1980-07-18
)
Sussex, England

Similar People
  
Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt

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Scott James Remnant (born 18 July 1980) is an open source Software Engineer. Scott served as a long-time Debian developer until 2006 and worked as "Ubuntu Developer Manager" on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. at Canonical Ltd. He now works at Google as a Technical Lead on Bluetooth Systems.

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Work

  • Ran the Linux humor website Segfault.org
  • While a Debian developer, Scott maintained several important packages, notably libtool and dpkg
  • Is the author of the Upstart initialization system
  • Developed the Planet weblog aggregation system
  • He served on the Ubuntu Technical Board until October 2011

    • Personal life

    Scott is openly gay, and believes it important to be open about it to support others in the open source community.

    References

    Scott James Remnant Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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