Dr. Allison Randal is an open source/hardware developer and strategist. She is co-chair of the Microarchitecture Side Channels working group at RISC-V International, chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, vice-chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and board member at the LLVM Foundation.
She previously served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, technical architect of Ubuntu at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard, Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, and Principal Engineer at Rivos. She collaborates in the Debian, RISC-V, and CHERI projects and has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.