Vaishali Thakkar is a freelance kernel engineer and co-organizer of RGSoC. She has diverse interest in different areas/subsystems of Linux Kernel, including but not limited to I2C, Security, memory management. power management etc. She also volunteers as a coordinator for Linux Kernel projects in Outreachy program. Vaishali also believes in open education and helps open learning schools/universities in India to adopt the open philosophy in education sector.