Kyle is a husband, father of five, roboticist, and a prolific open source software developer (where he goes by the handle “kyrofa”). He maintains and contributes to a number of projects, including Ubuntu, Nextcloud, versions 1 and 2 of the Robot Operating System (ROS), as well as the snapcraft CLI and snapd, two key technologies behind snaps and Ubuntu Core.

Kyle’s day job is at Miriam Technologies, a software consulting and contracting company, where he works on everything from cloud infrastructure and security to industrial real-time product sorting machines. In the past he’s worked as a staff engineer on the security and robotics teams for Canonical (the company that publishes Ubuntu), and as a lead roboticist for the US Department of Defense.