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Founder & Exec. Director, CodeChix
Rupa Dachere is the Founder and Executive Director of CodeChix, a 501(c)3 charitable non-profit dedicated to the Education, Advocacy and Mentorship of women engineers in industry. She is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at her day job at VMware. Rupa has been a software engineer...
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Director / Open Source Technology Center, VMware
Darren is the Director of the Open Source Technology Center at VMware. He leads the engineering team in their efforts to contribute to open-source projects as well as role model and advocate for open source best practices within VMware. Prior to VMware, Darren spent 7 years at each...
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Senior Technical Director SW Engineering, Arm
Grant Likely is a Linux kernel engineer working for Arm, Ltd. He is perhaps best know for his work on the Devicetree subsystem used by many embedded Linux systems, and for representing kernel developers on the | Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board. At Arm, Grant works on software...
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Co-Founder and COO, Togán Labs Ltd
Aoife FitzGibbon O’Riordan is the co-founder and CEO of Togán Labs, a high-potential high-performing startup in the embedded open source space, located in rural MidWest Ireland. Aoife is a trained sociologist who moved into the open source world a number of years ago, learning...
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Sr. Director, Open Source Practice, Comcast
Nithya A. Ruff is the Senior Director for Comcast’s Open Source Practice. She is responsible for growing Open Source culture inside of Comcast and engagement with external communities. Prior to this, she started and grew the Western Digital’s Open Source Strategy Office. She first...
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