Heather Meeker
Co-Founder at Tech Law Partners LLP
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather Meeker is an open source software licensing lawyer, co-founder and strategic advisor with over a decade of experience shaping business models, IP strategy, and licensing for technology organizations. Based in Oakland, she blends deep legal expertise—from teaching software licensing at Berkeley Law to partnership roles at major firms—with hands-on involvement in the open source ecosystem and startups like Chinstrap Community and TheirStory. A board member of the StarkNet Foundation and former OSS Capital partner, she navigates the intersection of open source, venture strategy, and standards governance to help projects scale sustainably. Known as a "recovering programmer," she brings rare technical fluency alongside legal and commercial judgment, enabling pragmatic licensing solutions that anticipate developer and market realities.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mira Costa High SchoolJD Law, JD Law at University of California, Berkeley - School of LawBA Economics, BA Economics at Yale University
Spanish, Hindi
Github Skills (136)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Open-Weights/Definition
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
heathermeeker/COSSPlaybook
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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