# Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code

DevFeed: [Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/prominent-mesa-developer-now-working-for-arm-on-panvk-panfrost-code-12401.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Erik-Faye-Lund-Mesa-Arm>)

Author: Michael Larabel

Published: 2026-09-11T12:55:26Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Phoronix](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/phoronix.md>)

Topics: [Arm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/arm.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [3D graphics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/3d-graphics.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

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## AI overview

Erik Faye-Lund has joined Arm after eight years at Collabora and will continue contributing to the upstream PanVK Vulkan driver and Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics. He also aims to improve Arm's collaboration with upstream projects.

## Source excerpt

Erik Faye-Lund who has contributed to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack working on areas like Zink and most notably the PanVK Vulkan and Panfrost Gallium3D drivers forr Arm Mali hardware is now working directly for Arm...