Adrienne is an experienced engineering leader and director of distributed development and ops teams, and a keynote speaker beloved for her ability to inspire and motivate. She is an engineering leadership consultant and her customers include Lead Dev, O'Reilly Media, and Pluralsight. She has directing engineering and ops at an early-stage startup, a mature PaaS company, and most recently, led multiple teams in the Platform org at an ecommerce and point of sale company. Open-source and community work is important to Adrienne. She is a mentor and author of the Imposter Syndrome Disclaimer, a framework for open-source Contributing Guides which has been adopted by projects as diverse as Netflix's Cloud Security Team, the BeeWare Project, and MetPy. She also served as Director of Advancement of the Django Software Foundation, the non-profit behind Django. Adrienne is an O'Reilly author of their newest engineering leadership course on the platform, and technical editor of Head First Python 2nd Edition. Adrienne is based in Music City: Nashville, Tennessee.