Sumana Harihareswara
Founder at Changeset Consulting, LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSumana Harihareswara is the founder of Changeset Consulting and a 14-year veteran of open source program management, technical writing, and release engineering based in New York. She helps projects ship faster by triaging bugs, clearing code review queues, writing onboarding and user docs, and managing short-term releases for clients including the Python Software Foundation, Mozilla, and Wikimedia. A practiced public speaker and mentor, Sumana has presented widely on code review, HTTP, UX, and open-source culture, and she combines hands-on Python documentation work for high-profile projects like PyPI/warehouse and pip with organizational strategy. Her background spans engineering community management at Wikimedia, product and project leadership at Collabora and Fog Creek, and nonprofit governance at the Ada Initiative, reflecting a mix of technical, managerial, and advocacy skills. Colleagues describe her as a “geek-suit interface”—someone who translates between maintainers, managers, and users to make open source work more humane and sustainable.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science, BA Political Science at University of California, BerkeleyTokay High SchoolMS Technology Management [EITM], MS Technology Management [EITM] at Columbia UniversityRecurse Center
Russian
Github Skills (15)
technical-writing10
markdown10
rs10
markdown-it10
restructuredtext10
pypi10
python-packaging10
content-model10
web-content10
sphinx10
documentation10
github9
html9
python5
css5
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/packaging.python.org
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Python Packaging User Guide
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 59 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sumana primarily contributed to the documentation of the "Python Packaging User Guide". Their commits focused on updating links, correcting formatting issues, improving wording, and providing clear instructions for users. The user's work included modernizing the guide to reflect the current status of PyPI, including the use of API tokens and the deprecation of older services. They also improved the examples and provided clarifications throughout the documentation.
packagingpythonuser-guidepython-packaging
pypa/twine
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Utilities for interacting with PyPI
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:66 commits, 34 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sumana primarily contributed to the documentation of the `twine` project. Their work included adding basic information to the documentation index, revising existing documentation, reorganizing user and developer documentation, adding contributing guidelines, and updating the changelog. The user also improved formatting and linking throughout the documentation, enhancing its clarity and usability.
pythonpypipypi-packagepython-wheelwheel
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