I am the Director of Open Source at Indeed, and a Visiting Technologist Fellow at the National Security Institute. As the Director of Open Source at Indeed, I have led our efforts to inventory, analyze, and understand our open source dependencies – from single-file JavaScript libraries to fundamental pieces of our digital infrastructure. My team’s work has defined Indeed’s strategic approach to direct-investment in the people, projects, and foundations at the heart of open source. This work includes the FOSS Contributor Fund blueprint (https://github.com/indeedeng/FOSS-Contributor-Fund) that we shared with the community, our industry-leading work to directly sponsor individual contributors through the GitHub Sponsors program (https://github.com/orgs/indeedeng/sponsoring), our broad engagement across the open source foundation ecosystem, and our participation in various working groups. Prior to my time at Indeed, I led operations for the Open Source Program Office at PayPal, and have worked as a developer at Adobe, Autodesk, and others.
How will you contribute to the board
I hope to serve the board in two specific ways:
1 – My experience in the funding space will help me serve the board by assisting the OSI in fundraising activities.
2 – My experience working in the space of open source sustainability will help me serve the board by informing the OSI’s advocacy work.
Why you should be elected
I am a senior technologist with more than 20 years experience working in some of the industry’s biggest tech companies. For the last ten years, my work has focused entirely on helping my employers show up as mindful, intentional partners with the people, projects, and foundations that make open source work. While I have experience developing these partnerships from within my employers, I also wish to better understand how to develop strong partnerships from within the foundations that we all serve and support. By serving the board of the OSI, I will learn how to be a better partner.