Kate Alhola

Kate Alhola is a maemo chief engineer in Technology development team in Forum Nokia Technical services and consultancy. Forum Nokia is the Nokia developers organization.

Kate has a long history in Open source development starting from the first 8 bit processors, 68K, Unix and then Linux from early versions. Kate has experience in many opensource projects including multiple Linux device drivers, Katix RTOS, Katix micro-IP stack, bios/debugger for 68K and PPC, GTK/maemo based Efis and Engine monitor applications. GUI programming starting with X11/Athena, Motif and then Qt and GTK+. Kate also has much experience in hardware design in 68K, PPC and Arm based environments.

Before joining Nokia 2005 Kate worked in a small subcontractor company doing Linux and Open source based Software and hardware design projects.