Los Angeles, CA
July 2022
Aeva Black
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Presentations
Office of the CTO, Azure
Microsoft
Aeva Black is an incurably queer geek with a penchant for ancient languages, who was briefly a physics major and may have solved time travel¹. Today, they're an open source hacker in Azure's Office of the CTO, focusing on supply chain security and community safety while holding seats on the OSI Board and the OpenSSF TAC. On a previous timeline, they were a database admin and hardware hacker who wrote a lot of code and founded the OpenStack Ironic project. (¹ not really)