Waiman Long is an experienced software engineer working in the Linux Performance and Scalability team of HP Enterprise Server Group. 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.