Alistair Francis currently works at Western Digital as part of the RISC-V software research team. He is the QEMU RISC-V maintainer; developing, reviewing and merging QEMU patches. He also has a focus on security, specifically secure operating systems related to Root of Trust (RoT) devices. He is the vice-chair of the RISC-V Security Response Team. He is actively working on supporting Tock and the Tock ecosystem on the OpenTitan platform. He also contributes to and maintains a range of different software projects, from low level operating systems to high level system applications. He has contributed to glibc, strace, OpeOCD, Oreboot, OpenEmbedded, Linux, Xvisor, OpenSBI, seL4, SweRV-ISS, Open Compute Project security specifications and a variety of other projects.