Duane O'brien
Executive Director at Open Source Initiative (OSI)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDuane O'Brien is an open source leader and sustainability specialist with nearly 25 years in technology and 13 years of focused experience building programs that fund and sustain FOSS. He’s led Open Source strategy and teams at Indeed and Capital One, created and operationalized corporate contributor funding models like the FOSS Contributor Fund, and pioneered GitHub Sponsors implementations to invest in upstream infrastructure. As Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative and advisor to programs like the GitHub Accelerator and NSI, he blends technical program leadership with policy engagement—having extended a technologist fellowship into ongoing visiting fellow work to influence U.S. tech policy. Duane also runs a consultancy, serves on nonprofit boards, and is known for bridging legal, security, and engineering stakeholders to make open source funding and risk decisions practical and scalable.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Canada CollegeBachelor of Science, Religious Studies, Education, Bachelor of Science, Religious Studies, Education at Kentucky Christian College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
metadata10
governance10
javascript10
foundation10
nodejs10
css10
jstree10
compliance10
faker9
paypal9
browser9
management9
exporter9
adonisjs9
branding9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DuaneOBrien/IgniteTraining
Nov 2016 - Jun 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
licensedmachine-learningtrainingtraining-materialsignite
indeedeng/FOSS-Contributor-Fund
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
This document outlines the processes we use to manage our FOSS Contributor Fund initiative at Indeed.
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 2 months
fundcontributorinitiativeindeedfoss
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