Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer, -Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from -games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping -fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language -design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation, -database replication, and operating systems.
- -She is a board member at the Perl Foundation, a board member at the -OpenStack Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for -free software community leaders. At various points in the past she has -served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl -Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chairman of -the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, -Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media, conference chair of OSCON, -Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, -Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at HP, and -Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates in the Debian project, -and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical at the -University of Cambridge.
+Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer, + Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from + games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping + fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language + design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation, + database replication, operating systems and kernels, and hardware + architectures and microarchitectures.
+ +She is a board member at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, vice chair + of the Microarchitecture Side Channels (Security) SIG at RISC-V + International, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for free + software community leaders. At various points in the past she has served + as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president + and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board + member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software + Foundation, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, chief architect + of the Parrot virtual machine, Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media, + conference chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source + Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source + Strategist at HP, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates + in the Debian and RISC-V projects, and currently works on free software + and open hardware at Rivos.