Ariadne Conill
Founder & Distinguished Engineer, Open Source at Edera
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAriadne Conill is a founder and distinguished open source engineer with 20 years of experience driving security, package tooling, and platform portability across Linux and BSD ecosystems from Seattle. She has led product and R&D strategy at Edera and Chainguard while sustaining deep hands-on contributions to low-level projects—musl, libc, pkgconf, and Alpine Linux—often tackling architecture ports, CI, and hardening work. Her resume blends core systems programming (C/C++, Rust bindings) with DevOps and build tooling, evident in contributions like s390x support in rust-lang/libc and image/APK builders apko and melange. A long-time Alpine core team and TSC security officer, she pairs governance and incident-minded leadership with meticulous code fixes that prevent real-world DoS and encoding bugs. Known in OSS circles as a "keeper of mazes," she frequently operates in the intersection of legacy Unix behavior, secure defaults, and reproducible build systems.
20 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (66)
dependency-management10
parser10
command-line-interface10
c1110
security10
c1710
system10
media-player10
dns10
cplus10
build-automation10
cross-compiling10
cpp10
system-programming10
linux10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
pkgconf/pkgconf
Jul 2011 - Jan 2023
package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 1272 commits in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ariadne primarily worked on the `pkgconf` project, focused on the parsing and management of package configuration files (.pc files). Their contributions included the implementation of dependency list support, the addition of various validation rules, refactoring the codebase for improved performance and memory handling. They also introduced new features related to variable processing and added support for Windows-specific aspects of the project.
compilerlinkermetadata
chainguard-dev/apko
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Build OCI images from APK packages directly without Dockerfile
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:247 reviews, 584 commits, 435 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ariadne primarily contributed to the development of the `apko` tool, which builds OCI images from APK packages. Their work involved implementing core functionality, including a cobra skeleton for the command-line interface. The user also designed the build process including the generation of the APK database. The user was responsible for setting up the build environment.
containersdockerfiledocker-imageapkdocker
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