Harald Hoyer is a computer programmer and photographer, best known for developing the dracut initramfs generator and framework,[1] the udev device manager of Linux,[1] the systemd replacement for the System V init daemon[1] and the Gummiboot EFI boot loader.

[2] Harald Hoyer also made various contributions to the Linux Kernel, starting 1997.

[3] In 2012, together with Kay Sievers, Hoyer was the main driving force behind merging the /lib, /bin and /sbin file system trees into /usr in the Fedora distribution[4] He is employed by Red Hat, Inc.[5] Harald Hoyer resides in Vaterstetten, Germany.

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