Staff

Dr. Amanda Martin is a Director of Program Management for OpenSSF. Amanda has taught and managed technical projects since 2005 with the single desire to improve the entire world.

Brian is Chief Technology Officer of the OpenSSF. He has dedicated his career to connecting and empowering the Free Software and Open Source community to solve hard technology problems and have a positive societal impact. Throughout his career, he has worn many different hats – as a startup company founder, as an advisor to the U.S. government, as a board member at various non-profits and consortia, as a YGL and employee of the World Economic Forum, and as an investor.

Dr. David A. Wheeler is an expert on developing secure software and on open source software (OSS) development. He wrote the book “Secure Programming HOWTO” on how to develop secure software, and his work on countering malicious tools (“Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)”) is widely cited. He is the Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation, and teaches graduate courses in developing secure software at George Mason University (GMU). He is also the lead for the Linux Foundation’s OpenSSF Best Practices badge project. Dr. Wheeler has a PhD in Information Technology, a Master’s in Computer Science, a certificate in Information Security, and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering, all from George Mason University (GMU). He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Donald Liu is a Regional Tech Evangelist, for OpenSSF in the Asia Pacific region, helping companies and members to take part in the OpenSSF, The Linux Foundation, and the bigger open source community.

Jennifer Bly leads marketing and communications for the OpenSSF as Senior Marketing and Communications Manager. She develops marketing strategies that encompass integrated campaigns with an emphasis on public relations, communications, social media engagement, content development, brand storytelling and more. Jennifer has a knack for making complex technical issues easy to understand in ways that motivate people to pay attention and take action. Before joining the Linux Foundation she was the External Relations Manager at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), where she led the outreach team to increase the organization’s visibility in the internet community and develop strategic relationships that build customer growth and engagement. Jennifer earned her MA in Mass Communication from the University of Florida and Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). She is passionate about creating a better internet and enjoys getting the word out about people doing great work in the open source community.

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.

Julian Gordon is Vice President Asia Pacific for the OpenSSF, developing, supporting and empowering the open source community across the region and helping them connect with the OpenSSF ecosystem globally.

Khahil serves OpenSSF by executing special programs and projects that serve our communities. Khahil is especially critical to project events, promotions, and other dev-community facing benefits. Khahil’s work on events and projects have taken him all over the US and abroad. For more than a decade, he has worked on events of all scales across various industries, from brand-based pop up events, to managing the largest consumer video game event in the US.

Michelle Martineau is the 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.

Omkhar Arasaratnam is the General Manager of the Open Source Software Foundation (OpenSSF). He is an experienced cybersecurity and technical risk management executive with over 20 years of experience leading global cybersecurity projects. Omkhar leads organizations to realize their business goals while effectively managing cybersecurity risk and compliance requirements. Previously, he was the Director of Engineering for Regulated Cloud at Google. He has also previously led security organizations at financial and technology institutions, such as JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, TD Bank Group, and IBM. As a seasoned technology leader, he has revolutionized the effectiveness of secure software engineering, compliance, and cybersecurity controls. He is an accomplished author with several granted patents and has led contributions to many international standards. Omkhar is also a member of the NYU Cyber Fellow Advisory Council and a Senior Fellow with the NYU Center for Cybersecurity.

Randi leads the membership solutions for OpenSSF, connecting with organizations to share the benefits of formally joining the ecosystem of industry experts working together to secure the OS supply chain.  She is focused on ensuring long term project health and ability to execute the Mobilization Plan by increasing budget resources through membership, community growth, and awareness of the initiative.

Community and resource building along with collaboration are her passion.  She has a MSW with an emphasis on Management and Community Practice from the University of Tennessee, BSW from Belmont University and is a Certified Salesforce Admin.  She brings 10 years experience working in fast paced and solutions oriented environments including tech, nonprofit, entertainment and events.

Yang Hin is Director, China at Linux Foundation Asia Pacific

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.