Nithya is the Head of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. Amazon’s customers value open source innovation and the cloud’s role in helping them adopt and run important open source services. She drives open source culture and coordination inside of Amazon and engagement with external communities. Prior to Amazon, she started and grew Comcast and Western Digital’s OSPOs.
Nithya has been director-at-large on the Linux Foundation Board for the last 5 years and in 2019 was elected to be Chair.