Dawn Foster
Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project
Bio
Dawn leads the data science initiative for the CHAOSS project where she is also a Governing Board member and maintainer. Dawn is an OpenUK board member and co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. Dawn has 25+ years of experience working in open source positions at companies like VMware, Intel and Puppet with expertise in data / metrics, open source strategy, and building communities with a particular emphasis on open source communities. She has held a wide range of roles over the years, including UNIX system administrator, researcher, consultant, strategist, director / manager, and more.
Dawn holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich, an MBA from Ashland University, and a BS in Computer Science from Kent State University. She has done over a hundred talks at industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, KubeCon, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM, State of Open Con, and more. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfoster
https://github.com/geekygirldawn
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