Bio

Aeva Black is passionate about privacy, ethics, and open source. They currently work in Azure's Office of the CTO and hold seats on the Board of the Open Source Initiative, on the OpenSSF's Technical Advisory Council, and a Shadow seat on the Board of the CNCF. Aeva previously served on the Board of the Consent Academy, on OpenStack's Technical Committee, founded the OpenStack Ironic project, wrote a lot of Python, and even managed a few small MySQL databases. Aeva is a lifelong student of the Buddha Dharma, an incurably queer geek, and a frequent keynote speaker at 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).