Walt Miner is the Senior Director of Community at The Linux Foundation and has served as Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014 with over twenty years of automotive and open source experience. Prior to joining The Linux Foundation he worked for Tier One Suppliers Motorola Telematics Communications Group and Continental before joining Monta Vista software. After spending five years managing the Systems Engineering and Software Architecture teams for Linux Java phones at Motorola Mobile Devices, Walt went to Continental and created their first open source compliance office and delivered Linux based telematics devices to OEM customers. A long time ago, in a place far far away he spent many years working for defense contractors developing electronic warfare systems.