Aeva Black is an incurably queer geek and veteran of the first dot-com bust. Roaming between startups and Big Tech with ease, Aeva currently works in Azure’s Office of the CTO and serves the open source community as the Secretary of the Board for the Open Source Initiative and as Vice Chair on the OpenSSF’s Technical Advisory Council. Aeva is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the world, advocating to make technology more ethical and inclusive while digging into topics ranging from open source strategy and community management, to databases, to bare metal orchestration and security.