Matthew Garrett is a developer at Nebula, working on tight integration of Openstack technologies with hardware to improve functionality and security. He maintains the Linux x86 platform drivers tree for handling system-specific features, contributes to kernel UEFI and ACPI support code and supports Shim, the Linux secure boot loader used by most distributions. Matthew has presented on UEFI and firmware related topics at a range of conferences, including various Linuxcon events, the Intel Developer Forum and Microsoft's internal security conference.