Sarah Novotny

Sarah Novotny has long been an open source champion leading in projects such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, NGINX, and MySQL. She has previously led an Open Source Ecosystem team from the Microsoft Azure Office of the CTO, an Open Source Strategy group at Google, and represented both Microsoft and Google on the Linux Foundation Board of Directors. In the distant past, she ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name. Sarah’s 20+ years of expertise extends beyond technical realms to encompass developer relations, marketing, sales engineering, and more. She has a proven track record of leading technical operations and development teams while effectively bridging the gap between customer requirements and technical vision.