Bernard Xiong, the creator and originator of RT-Thread, has more than 20 years of experience in embedded systems and wireless communication. Bernard Xiong created RT-Thread Open Source Operating System in 2006 in a form of Open Source Community Powered. He gathered the top engineers and open-source advocates to join the project, and on the system side, he put forwarded and applied the real-time object-oriented design, to make the RT-Thread autonomous Operating System kernel and Micro-Kernel Operating System RT-Thread Smart stand out, as well as developed a large number of mature and stable software components, such as file system, PersimUI, and many others.