David S. Miller
[10] As of January 2022, Miller is #1 in "non-author signoff" patches,[11] which are Linux kernel modifications reviewed by the subsystem maintainer who ultimately applies them.[12] He worked at the Rutgers University Center for Advanced Information Processing,[13] at Cobalt Microserver,[14] and then Red Hat since 1999.[15][16] Miller ported the Linux kernel to the Sun Microsystems SPARC in 1996[13] with Miguel de Icaza.[4] In April 2008, Miller contributed the SPARC port of gold, a from-scratch rewrite of the GNU linker.[18][19] Miller is one of the maintainers of the Linux TCP/IP stack[1] and has been key in improving its performance in high load environments.