Starting programming C at age 16 and running into Linux at university 4 years later, Klaas van Gend (nowadays 39) has been hooked to open source and Linux for a long time.
He started as a professional developer for Linux applications and systems in 1999. He joined MontaVista Software in 2004. Since early 2012, he works for Vector Fabrics and travels the world to talk about parallelization and multicore opportunities in existing C or C++ code.
Klaas lives in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.