Aeva Black
Microsoft
Open Source Hacker
Aeva Black is an incurably queer geek and open source hacker, passionate about privacy, ethics, and ancient languages. They work in Azure's Office of the CTO and hold seats on the Board of the Open Source Initiative and on the OpenSSF's Technical Advisory Council. Aeva previously served on the OpenStack Technical Committee and on the Board of the Consent Academy. Many years ago, Aeva founded the OpenStack Ironic project, wrote a lot of Python, and managed a few small MySQL databases. Aeva is a lifelong student of the Buddha Dharma and a frequent keynote speaker at open source conferences around the world. They are also an aspiring, yet time-starved, writer whose recent works include contributing to "Transending: An Anthology Of Trans Buddhist Voices" (2019), and being the technical editor for "Trust In Computer Systems And The Cloud" (2021).