Waiman Long is an experienced kernel software engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He is responsible for investigating and resolving performance and scalability issues of the Linux kernel on large multi-node NUMA systems. He is also a major contributor in revamping the Linux kernel synchronization primitives in recent years.

He has multiple years of working experience on Linux, HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX in both the kernel and the C runtime library. He is also an expert in the field of software internationalization.