Julia Ferraioli

@juliaferraioli
she/her

Open Source Researcher

Women in Tech

Data Visualization

Golang

A11y

Speaker

Software Engineering

Open Source

Writer Contributor

Academic Research

Data Science

Machine Learning

DEI Advocate

Developer Education

Developer Advocate

LGBTIQA+

Twitter

Xoogler

Founder

I'm a technical program manager working to make open source sustainable, welcoming, and more well-rounded.

I'm open to

open source contributions,

guest lecturing,

speaking at events,

making introductions,

writing,

speaking on podcasts,

investing,

and speaking on twitter spaces.

Contact Me

Resume

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May 2022 - Present

Open Source Technical Leader, Cisco

Jul 2021 - Present

Co-founder, Open Source Stories

Jun 2021 - Apr 2022

Senior Technical Program Manager, Twitter

Apr 2015 - May 2021

Technical Program Manager, Google Open Source

accessibility

I am definitely not an expert in web design, but I am an expert in using the web. I sat down with Nic Steenhout on A11yRules to chat about chronic pain, brain fog, and the challenges that they both...

The LeadDev published my article on writing accessible code, where I make recommendations for how to make code itself more accessible to disabled developers, and why it is important to create an en...

open source

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An important aspect and motivator of open source is empowerment. Open source has come a long way since the 1970s, but we have more work to do to make it accessible to the growing number of people i...

Transparency is key in open source. Openness is for more than just code — it's also for how we run the projects themselves. Read more about why operational transparency is important in my second Le...

What does #OpenSource look like beyond the license? How can we describe the structure and characteristics of a project using a shared vocabulary? I start to explore this by developing a social mode...

I'm absolutely delighted that GitHub decided to implement my idea to highlight codes of conduct alongside the README and LICENSE for open source projects. Codes of conduct are such important tools ...