kyrofa is a husband, father of six, roboticist, and a prolific open source software developer. Contributor to Ubuntu, Nextcloud, versions 1 and 2 of the Robot Operating System (ROS), as well as the snapcraft CLI and snapd, two key technologies behind snaps and Ubuntu Core.kyrofa's day job is at Miriam Technologies, a software consulting company. In the past he's worked as a staff engineer for Canonical (the company that publishes Ubuntu), and as a roboticist for the US Department of Defense.