Allison Randal — Senior Open Source Consultant

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Allison Randal is a software developer and open source strategist. She is a board member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, board member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, board member of Open Usage Commons, board member of the Perl Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders.

Her first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa, but her love of coding led her away from natural languages to computer languages. In over 35 years as a programmer, she has developed everything from games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, and shipping fulfillment systems, to compilers, hypervisors, database replication, deployment automation, and talking smart-home appliances, worked as a language designer, engineering manager, CTO, conference organizer, and editor, written three books, and founded two non-profit foundations and five companies.

At various points in the past she served as chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl Foundation, chairman of the Parrot Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly, conference chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu and Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates in the Debian and OpenStack projects, and is currently working on a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge for fun.

Her home page is lohutok.net and her blog is allisonrandal.com.

Cristina Muñoz — Infrastructure and Security Consultant

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Cristina Muñoz is a senior security and site reliability engineer. With over a decade of experience at large tech companies, small non-profits, and everything in between, she is passionate about developing and securing free software for collective liberation. Some of her open source contributions can found at github.com/xmunoz.

Ajaani Roberts —  Developer Intern

Ajaani Roberts first got involved in open source as a junior in high school, writing programs for apps and webpages alike. Ajaani, being an artist, focuses on the visual and creative aspect of web development.

Frank Duncan — Developer

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Frank Duncan has been a software developer and chocolatier for the past fifteen years. With Open Tech Strategies, he has worked on the Provider Screening Module and the Red Cross Smoke Alarm Portal. He also has contributed to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation's "Testing the Model" software. He has worked in legal copying, online travel, financial compliance, and more recently with Northwestern's Center for Connected Learning on the NetLogo programming language. He and his partner have owned and operated Katherine Anne Confections in Chicago, IL since 2006, where he applied his passion for software to the art of crafting chocolate. Further information can be found at GitHub.

Susy Struble — Open Source Strategy Consultant

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Susy Struble brings experience in business operations, product development, and influencing markets through open technologies and community development to Open Tech Strategies' clients. She's run open innovation and open digital infrastructure programs at companies like Mozilla and Sun Microsystems and has shaped government policy around Access to Knowledge issues, technology standards, and open source. She helped bring the Open Document Format standard and the OpenOffice product to market while at Sun Microsystems.

Jason Owen — Developer

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Jason Owen is a consultant and programmer who learned a tremendous amount from participating in the Computer Action Team at Portland State University and from independent study at the Recurse Center. He has been conscientiously honing his skills as a developer, system administrator, and release engineer for several years. Previously, Jason worked at Tripwire and hubbub health

For more about Jason see his GitHub and Twitter activity.

Dan Schultz — Technologist

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Dan Schultz is a creative technologist who helps teams make things for the public good. He has earned degrees from MIT and Carnegie Mellon, and became professionally involved in the civic media space through the Knight News Challenge as well as an Open News fellowship at Mozilla and the Boston Globe, as consulting director of technology at Civic Hall, and as a senior engineer at the Internet Archive. Dan has helped dozens of groups design and build out their products. In addition to his work with Open Tech Strategies, Dan is creating open-source media analysis projects as a member of Bad Idea Factory.

Greg Back — Developer

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Greg Back is a software developer and systems administrator with diverse experiences in open source software and open technology. He enjoys using computers to help other people solve their problems. Find more about what Greg is up to on GitHub.

Kavya Sukumar — Developer

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Kavya Sukumar is a developer-journalist who mostly works on building technology solutions for journalism. She got involved with the journalism-technology space through OpenNews where she was a Knight-Mozilla Fellow. During the fellowship, she worked on open sourcing Autotune, Vox Media's solution for allowing easier templatization of one-off graphics and apps in newsrooms.

Before switching to journalism, she was a software engineer at Microsoft where she worked on a number of products including XBox, Windows Games, Bing and MSN Videos. She has a bachelors degree in computer science and engineering from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India and a masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

You can find her on twitter at @kavyaSukumar.