Michael Ellerman

Michael’s contribution centres on sustaining the correctness and portability of kernel code as independent changes are combined. The public maintenance record makes that engineering work inspectable; merged patches remain the work of the named authors, alongside the responsibilities for review and integration.

Michael Ellerman is a software engineer at Tenstorrent and the maintainer of Linux PowerPC support, based in Canberra, Australia. The maintenance responsibility involves reviewing and integrating changes across a complex operating-system architecture, sustaining the correctness and portability of kernel code as independent contributions are combined.

Having moved from IBM to Tenstorrent in 2024, Michael remains an active member of the Australian OzLabs open-source community. Merged patches remain the work of individual authors alongside essential review and integration duties, ensuring that crucial operating-system engineering stays inspectable across the public maintenance record.