Kara De La Marck
TPM Linux Partnerships Azure Core at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKara De La Marck is an open source technologist and TPM focused on Linux partnerships for Azure Core, bringing a decade of experience building developer ecosystems and standards for CI/CD interoperability. With leadership roles at the Continuous Delivery Foundation and The Linux Foundation, she led the incubation and launch of the CDEvents specification and scaled community engagement and conference programs that measurably grew participation and product adoption. She combines hands-on engineering and docs contributions—from Jenkins X documentation edits to Jaeger and Babel work—with developer relations and program management across CloudBees and Microsoft. A Cambridge MSt graduate in AI Ethics and Society, she blends technical depth with a nuanced understanding of normative and socio-technical design, informed by research on AI alignment. She also co-founded and directed codebar, an international nonprofit teaching programming to underrepresented groups, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to inclusive tooling and community-building. Based in Redmond, she speaks regularly at major industry conferences and is known for translating cross-stakeholder strategy into practical specifications, events, and accessible documentation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Georgetown UniversityMaster of Studies (MS) Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society, Master of Studies (MS) Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society at University of CambridgeCoding bootcamp, Coding bootcamp at Founders and CodersLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (3)
doc10
hugo10
documentation10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jenkins-x/jx-docs
May 2019 - Nov 2020
Source code used to build the Jenkins X documentation and website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 reviews, 187 commits, 177 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kara primarily contributed to the Jenkins X documentation repository. Their work involved updating the 404 error page with an image and updated links to reflect the recent documentation site revamp. They also made edits to the homepage and fixed code snippets, and removed unnecessary banners and styling, ensuring the most up-to-date content was rendered correctly.
jenkinsjenkins-xhugo
WebRTEasy/video-camera
Sep 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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