Episode 91 - Microsoft Azure's Aeva Black an Open Source Dragon

The POPCAST with Dan POP

Once described as "an ancient and powerful open source dragon," Aeva Black is a dot-com veteran, an open source hacker, and a queer and non-binary geek. They work in the Azure Office of the CTO to improve the state of open source software supply chain security, and to support teams working on cloud security and digital privacy. Back in 2012, they launched OpenStack's Bare Metal Cloud program, enabling performance-sensitive cloud native workloads to run without a hypervisor.

Aeva currently serves on the Board of the Open Source Initiative, the non-profit which stewards the definition of "open source", and works within several other foundations including the Confidential Computing Consortium and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Aeva is a lifelong student of the buddha dharma and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights. They served for several years on the Board of the Consent Academy, a Seattle-area educational non-profit, and were recently published in Transcending, an anthology of trans buddhist authors.

In this episode we tackle their journey, their open source roots in various projects, software supply chain and so much more!

Timeline Topics

00:00 - Opener/Sponsors

00:14 - Intro to an ancient and powerful open source dragon Aeva Black

00:34 - Aeva's Journey

03:34 - HPE Helion Openstack

06:00 - Ethics and the Code of Conduct

07:36 - Consent as a Tool

09:12 - Burnout and the next phase of Aeva's journey and more importantly their life

16:20 - Securing Open source in the Office of the CTO at Microsoft Azure

17:25 - Software Supply Chain Security from the Open Source dragon (gitbomb)

20:26 - Open Source Initiative

23:13 - Confidential Computing Consortium

25:59 - What is Aeva most proud of?

Episode Links

https://aeva.online/

https://supplychainsecurityconna21.sched.com/

https://github.com/git-bom

https://confidentialcomputing.io/

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