Senior Software Security Researcher
The Linux Foundation

Yesenia Yser

Yesenia is a Senior Software Security Engineer for the Alpha-Omega OpenSSF project. She has dedicated her career to being a servant leader to the software engineer and cybersecurity realm and a cyber big sister by empowering and building security programs and executing the never-done. She is also a Brazilian jiu jitsu instructor in her free time.

Senior Software Security Researcher
The Linux Foundation

Jonathan Leitschuh

Jonathan Leitschuh is a Senior Software Security Researcher currently working for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). He is responsible for thousands of automatically generated pull requests, fixing vulnerabilities across OSS. He was the first Dan Kaminsky Fellow and former Software Engineer. Jonathan is best known for his July 2019 bombshell Zoom 0-day vulnerability disclosure. He is amongst the most prolific OSS researchers on GitHub by advisory credit. He’s both a GitHub Star and GitHub Security Ambassador. In 2019 he championed an industry-wide initiative to get all major artifact servers in the JVM ecosystem to formally decommission the support of HTTP in favor of HTTPS only. He has spoken at many conferences from BSides, ShmooCon, Sec-T, & GitHub Universe, to Black Hat, & DEFCON.

Project Manager
Citi

Annapurna Veeramachaneni

Annapurna Veeramachaneni is the part time Project Manager for Alpha Omega, an Open SSF Project, seconded from Citi. She is currently working as Information Security Tech Lead in the Cyber Security Services organization at Citi, providing her services as product and service manager for Container / Cloud Dev Sec Ops Teams. She is specialized in Enterprise level Virtual Workspace Platforms and Services, Monitoring, Data Analytics, Risk Management, Product and Project management. She has demonstrated expertise in engineering and deploying secure virtual workspace applications and tools. Annapurna with her strengths in servant leadership, improving internal / external collaboration and processes improvement; focuses on supporting successful delivery of security integration and improving security posture in the supply chain, OpenSource Software and  DevSecOps space.

Senior Program Manager
The Linux Foundation

Michelle Martineau

Michelle Martineau is the senior Program Manager for Alpha-Omega, an OpenSSF project, leading core business operations and grantee relations. Michelle brings over 8 years of experience in project optimization and program strategy with a focus on process improvement and building teams.

Principal Security PM Manager
Microsoft

Michael Scovetta

Michael Scovetta leads a security team at Microsoft, focused on understanding and addressing emerging security threats related to open source software and the ecosystem around it. He and his team do this by building security tools, advising engineering teams, and evangelizing good practices. Within OpenSSF, Michael co-leads the Alpha-Omega project and leads the Identifying Security Threats working group. Michael brings around 25 years of software engineering and security experience and earned a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University and  Bachelor of Science from Hofstra University.

OSS Supply Chain Security
Google

Bob Callaway

Bob Callaway is the technical lead and manager of the supply chain integrity group in Google’s Open Source Security Team. He and his team directly contribute to critical secure supply chain projects and drive communication & adoption of best practices throughout the open source ecosystem. Bob is a member of the Technical Advisory Council for sigstore, a Linux Foundation / OpenSSF set of projects focused on improving transparency and UX of software supply chains. Before joining Google in 2021, Bob was a member of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO where he was responsible for emerging technology strategy with strategic partners (including IBM) and a principal architect at NetApp where he focused on contributions to OpenStack and storage automation projects. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from NC State University where he also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the ECE department.

AWS
Principal, Open Source

Henri Yandell

Program Manager
The Linux Foundation

Naomi Washington

Naomi Washington is a Program Manager with over 10 years of experience in administration, event, and project management. Committed to sharing expertise on effective program management, she’s driven to boost project and community engagement through innovative operational excellence. Capitalizing on being an operational generalist, she’s able to sustain service excellence and advance organizational goals.

Michael Winser