As a senior software engineer, Yannick Côté is part of of the Core Kernel team at Red Hat working on the Kpatch / Live Patching subsystem for the Linux Kernel. Prior to Red Hat, he worked at Sylabs Inc., where his efforts on data storage and file systems led him to create and develop the Singularity Image Format (SIF), a new container image format, as well as implement cryptographic signing/verification strategies for Singularity containers.