Lisa is an engineering, product, and advocacy expert in open source data infrastructure and DataOps fields. At Databricks, her role oversees the open source involvement and developer relations of projects including MLflow, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Unity Catalog OSS. She has also previously served on the Linux Foundation's Outreach committee, formerly led the Open Platform for Enterprise AI's (OPEA) Developer Experience Working Group, and leads the Continuous Delivery Foundation's (CDF) DataOps Initiative. Lisa is also a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, founder and 3x chair of the Vancouver Datajam, and former lead maintainer of the BiocSwirl project. She is also a Terry Fox Gold Medal award recipient (2021) and Linux Foundation LiFT recipient for Women in Open Source (2021). Some meetups she has organized included SF's Data for AI meetup, Data Engineer Things Bay Area, and RLadies Vancouver.

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