Summary
Melissa Klein is an open source program manager with over six years of focused experience and a two-decade technical background, currently shaping community and governance strategy at Fermyon Technologies from Philadelphia. She built New Relic’s first Open Source Program Office and has stewarded enterprise open source policy, education, and risk remediation across Legal, Engineering, and M&A at large organizations. At IBM she streamlined governance processes, served as product owner for automation tools that sped approvals, and advised acquired teams on license and community alignment. Known for translating complex legal and technical tradeoffs into practical guidance, she blends deep hands-on engineering roots with pragmatic program leadership.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Villanova University