Staff

Brian Behlendorf

Executive Director

Brian is the Executive Director for Hyperledger and Linux Foundation Public Health. Brian was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum 2011-2012. He also worked at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2009 and the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 on advancing the use of open standards through the use of open source software.

Jenny Wanger

Director of Programs

As a co-founder and leader of the TCN Coalition, Jenny built a community of people trying to safely reopen the economy through privacy-preserving applications of technologies. She is now working with a variety of organizations focused on exposure notification to make sure that the technology is as effective as possible without infringing on our civil liberties.

Before that Jenny spent the past several years growing the SpotHero consumer product management organization.

With 7+ years of product management experience, Jenny has had the privilege of working on a variety of products, from APIs and two-sided marketplaces to services and experiences. Throughout all of it, user-centered design has informed her approach. Using agile product development strategies, she combines quantitative and qualitative research to get the right data before committing to build.

As a public speaker, Jenny focuses on practical ways in which product managers can improve their craft. She prides herself on sharing actionable advice that can help others improve how they do their jobs. She is a regular guest blogger on Mind the Product and occasionally writes for other sites as well.

Daniela Barbosa

VP of World Wide Alliances

Daniela Barbosa serves as Vice President of World Wide Alliances for LF Public Health, where she is responsible for the full lifecycle management of LFPH’s membership community while overseeing the broader industry and business community outreach and network growth. 

Daniela has developed and led growth and innovation strategies for more than 18 years with a background working with financial services, media, and enterprise software. Daniela has led both partnerships and alliances teams as well as marketing and has been responsible for driving global partnerships, OEM integrations, market leadership, and global brand awareness.

Lucy Yang

Community Director, COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI)

Lucy joined the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative from day one and has since led the operations and communications of the community, which has now grown to nearly 400 participants. She played an instrumental role in taking CCI into Linux Foundation Public Health. 

Lucy is an entrepreneur and business leader, experienced in taking ventures off the ground and leading their growth from 0 to 10. Prior to moving to Toronto from Beijing, she single-handedly launched the mainland China office for her first company and expanded the reach of its entrepreneurship program from one to four major cities within a year. After that, Lucy joined a tech startup as the fifth member and oversaw the operations during its early expansion, ensuring the readiness of the necessary infrastructure for a client growth from 30 to 1000 within less than a year.

During her MBA at the University of Toronto, Lucy co-founded a social project that was covered by over 10+ media outlets including CBC and CTV. While at a blockchain venture development firm post-MBA, Lucy led the business operations while supporting portfolio ventures in business development, market research, and product development.

Lucy also holds a master’s degree in anthropology and proudly calls herself a lifetime anthropologist. 

John Walker

Community Architect, COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI)

John joined the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative from day one and has since been a co-lead for the operations and communications of the community, which has now grown to nearly 400 participants. He played an instrumental role in taking CCI into Linux Foundation Public Health.

John is an experienced solutions architect, technical program and IT manager. John’s experience in large scale product and customer enterprise data initiatives in the tech, bio-tech, retail and publishing domains led to his interest in personal health information (PHI) and the investigation into how distributed technologies can best serve individuals and business. For the past four years, John has been working with several Hyperledger projects, actively working on POCs under the Hyperledger Fabric Healthcare SIG and in this past year working with the Indy / Aries project technologies. Additionally, John has been participating in the ToIP Input and Semantics Work Group leading a focus group working on HL7 FHIR based PHI use cases.

Kaliya Young

Ecosystems Director, COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI)

Kaliya has this role because she is hyper-connected across the network of organizations working together on developing verifiable credentials. She co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop in 2005 and still produces it twice a year. She has written two books about digital identity and is known widely as the “Identity Woman”. 

Min Yu

Operations Manager

Min provides operational management to scale the growth of an open source project community and to coordinate the activities of the project governance and various committees at The Linux Foundation.

Chris Abraham

Web Engineering Manager

Chris is a PMP-certified technology leader with a consistent record at getting the most out of software teams. He has managed projects for clients such as Samsung and MetLife in addition to distributed blockchain development teams like the Aragon DAC. Chris has been developing mobile and web applications for over 20 years and has been working with The Linux Foundation since May 2018. He holds a Systems Design Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.

David A. Wheeler

Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security

David is an expert on open source software (OSS) and on developing secure software. His works on OSS include “Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!“, “How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs“, “Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government”, and “Open Source Software is Commercial”. He also helped develop the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy on OSS. His works on developing secure software include “Secure Programming HOWTO” and “Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)“. Other works of his include “Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice” and “Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial“.

David is the Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation and teaches graduate courses in developing secure software at George Mason University (GMU). David has a PhD in Information Technology, a Master’s in Computer Science, a certificate in Information Security, and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering, all from George Mason University (GMU), and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He lives in Northern Virginia.