I'm an Open Source sustainability researcher, and the Executive Director of the Software Stewardship Lab, a non-profit applied research lab dedicated to ensuring the stability of the Open Source ecosystem we all rely on.
I'm also the Director of the Open Source Pledge, which is creating a new social norm of companies paying the maintainers they depend on, and has raised $7,156,281 for maintainers since launching.
Additionally, I am doing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the ethics and epistemology of Open Source software.
I write on vlad.website. I love cats and birds.