Ivana Atanasova is an Open Source Engineer in VMware's Open Source Program Office, where she has contributed to a variety of projects, including Python-TUF, Tern, CHAOSS' Augur, Network Service Mesh, OpenFaaS and others. Previously, Ivana worked at the Bulgarian Academy of Science as a contractor for the Advanced Computing for Innovation project in Sofia, for generating emotional speech, a key technique towards a natural and realistic conversation between humans and machines. She is an active speaker and has spoken at various events, including KubeCon, Open Source Summit, OpenFest, and served as a member of the KubeCon EU 2022 Program Committee. When she’s away from her keyboard, Ivana enjoys playing piano, painting, reading, cooking and walking around nature.
In celebration of women’s history month, we gathered together eight women within our Open Source Program Office and asked them to share their career journeys...
