Advisory Board

Jono Bacon CEO Stateshift Bio Jono Bacon is a leading community and collaboration speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony […]

Erblina Bunjaku MMath Student University of Edinburgh Bio Erblina Bunjaku is a fourth-year student of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and a passionate advocate for STEM education and gender equality. She is the Executive Director of EngineeringHER Future and Head of STEM Ambassadors at the Kosovo STEM Centre, leading initiatives that promote STEM access

David Aronchick​ CEO Expanso Bio David is the CEO of Expanso. Previously, he led Compute over Data at Protocol Labs, Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Azure, product management for Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched Google Kubernetes Engine, and co-founded the Kubeflow (https://kubeflow.org/) project and the SAME (https://sameproject.ai/) project. He has also worked at

Dan Scarbrough Chief of Staff Stelia Bio Dan Scarbrough is Chief of Staff at Stelia, where he helps build the platform engine powering the next generation of AI-native companies. With over 30 years of experience scaling companies across cloud, AI, and frontier technology, Dan has worked across global markets and at every layer of the

Damani Corbin Global Software Strategy, Open Source Program Office Boeing Bio Damani Corbin joined The Boeing Company in January, 2022 to assist in the implementation of an enterprise wide DevSecOps initiative, assisting teams adopt cloud native technologies. Since joining, Boeing has launched an Open Source Program Office that Damani transitioned into to lead the strategy

Cortney Nickerson Head of CommunityNirmata Bio Cortney Nickerson is the Head of Community at Nirmata, where she leads strategy and engagement for both the Kyverno open source project and Nirmata’s commercial community. A self-taught, community-driven professional who entered tech later in her career, Cortney has become a recognized voice in cloud native, speaking at international

Chad Whitacre Head of Open Source Sentry Bio Chad Whitacre got his start in Open Source in 2001. He participated in the Python web development boom of the 2000s that gave rise to Django and Flask. Along the way, he experienced first-hand the tension between volunteer Open Source work and paid closed source work, so

Caterina Rindi​ Director of Open Source Community, Developer Relations, and Academic Engagements G-Research Bio Caterina Rindi, Director of Open Source Community, Developer Relations, and Academic Engagements, G-ResearchCaterina started her professional career teaching bilingual kindergarten and is still using those skills in her current role with G-Research Open Source Software. She has been working with remote

Alex Williams Founder/ Publisher The New Stack Bio Alex Williams is the founder and publisher of The New Stack, a news media site that offers explanation and analysis of at-scale development, deployment, and management for software engineers and developers. Alex is a career journalist who started his work as a daily newspaper reporter in Augusta,

Brian Douglas Head of DX Continue Bio Brian is the Head of DX at Continue, an open source platform to create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of rules, tools, and models. Brian previously founded Open Sauced where he woreds on increasing the knowledge and insights of