I’m a lawyer, executive, and (LLM-assisted) software developer, specializing in open source licensing, product counseling, technology transactions, and community strategy.

#What am I up to?

I’m currently VP Legal for Product and Policy at Sonar, where we are working to build a future of software development that is both faster and more secure.

#Current and past volunteering

I volunteer in a variety of capacities, including:

• On the boards of:
  • Creative Commons (current)
  • the Open ET water data project (current)
  • the California Housing Defense Fund (current)
  • the Open Source Initiative (past)
  • the GNOME project (past)
• As a legal expert for:
  • the Patents and Standards Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (past)
  • the Legal Working Group of Open Street Map (past)
• As bugmaster for the GNOME project! (past)
• As a Wikipedia editor (ongoing)

#Past work

Before Sonar, I worked on some of the most high-profile technology projects in the world, including:

• At Tidelift, I was co-founder and General Counsel, where we created a new way to support open source maintainers and were acquired by Sonar.
• At the Wikimedia Foundation, I served as Deputy General Counsel and then led the Community Engagement Department.
• At Mozilla, I led the revision of the Mozilla Public License.
• At Greenberg Traurig, my clients included many startups, Facebook, Amazon, and Google in the Google-Oracle lawsuit.
• At Ximian, I helped build and QA Evolution 1.0 and GNOME 2.0.