Pamela Chestek
Board Member at Chestek Legal
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPamela Chestek is an accomplished business attorney and open source expert with over a decade of experience advising technology companies on IP, licensing, and brand strategy. As Principal of Chestek Legal and Chair of the License Committee on the Open Source Initiative Board, she blends practical counsel on license compliance and contributor agreements with stewardship of the Open Source Definition. Her in-house and outside counsel roles span startups to multinationals, and she has led IP programs at companies like Red Hat, Progress, and Reebok. A frequent speaker and author on trademark, copyright and open source topics, she also helps organizations reconcile brand identity with cultures of free access—drawing on a background that includes teaching trademark law and a BFA in technical theatre.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Technical Theatre, BFA, Technical Theatre at Penn State UniversityJD, Law, JD, Law at Western New England University School of Law
Github Skills (45)
matplotlib9
qt9
python9
gtk9
data-visualization8
linguistics8
data-science8
thunderbird7
policies7
arduino-library7
legaltech7
readable7
exploit6
finance6
pii6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pchestek/FOSSmarks
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
FOSSmarks - A practical guide to understanding trademarks in the context of Free and Open Source Software projects.
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
understandingtrademarksfree-and-open-source-softwarepracticalopen-source-software
pchestek/aichallengewatch
Feb 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:22 pushes in 3 months
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