Claire Giordano (@clairegiordano) is a Principal PM Manager on the Postgres team at Microsoft. Before the Microsoft acquisition of Citus Data in 2019, Claire was VP of marketing at Citus Data, where she led the team to raise awareness about the Citus open source extension to Postgres. Fibonacci Spirals and 21 Ways to Contribute to Postgres—Beyond Code
Jeff Mendoza, with Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office. Discover dependency license information with ClearlyDefined - License discovery and record-keeping for crates Also, about ClearlyDefined: https://docs.clearlydefined.io/
Amaury Chamayou, Senior Research Engineer in the Confidential Computing Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. The Confidential Consortium Framework- A framework to build secure, highly available, and performant applications that focus on multi-party compute and data
Graham Hayes, Principal Engineer in Microsoft Azure, and Member of the OpenStack Technical Committee. DNS Management in OpenStack - What is the OpenStack DNS API?
Carol Smith is a Senior Program Manager in the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft. She has worked in FOSS for over 10 years, and managed Google Summer of Code for 6 years. She has previously worked at GitHub and is an emeritus board director of the Open Source Initiative. There's no sustainability problem in FOSS - Except that there is and DEBATE: Does Careful Inventory of Licensing Bill of Materials Have Real Impact on FOSS License Compliance?
Nikola Grcevski, VM engineer at Microsoft working on OpenJDK Reducing OpenJDK Java Garbage Collection times with stack allocation
William Bartholomew is a Product Manager on the Security and Compliance team at GitHub. Package managers: resolve differences - Lively panel discussion on package management
Douglas Creager, manages the Semantic Code team at GitHub. Precise, cross-project code navigation at GitHub scale
Shlomi Noach, works at GitHub on the database infrastructure team solving high availability, reliability, enablement problems, running automation and testing. Automating schema migration flow with GitHub Actions, skeema & gh-ost - And end-to-end schema migration automation, from design to production, at GitHub