Summary
Jona Azizaj is a community and partnerships leader with a decade of experience building and nurturing developer ecosystems across open source and ML events from Tirana. Currently leading Partnerships and Communities for the Machine Learning Prague conference, she blends conference-scale program management with hands-on open source mentorship as a long-time Fedora Ambassador and DEI advisor. Her background spans developer relations, community management, and organizing major regional events like OSCAL and Linux Weekend, plus mentoring programs such as Outreachy and GSoC. Jona is active in diversity, equity, and inclusion work within Fedora and The Document Foundation, often serving as the bridge between governance and contributors. Known for combining empathy-driven community building with practical technical familiarity (Python, web tech, cloud/Ansible), she brings both strategic partnership skills and grassroots open-source credibility.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer