Amanda is a community and legislative advocate at heart. She heads up marketing efforts for cloud native community engagement inside the Cloud Native Business Unit within VMware. Prior to this role, she led open source marketing for The {code} Team representing open source efforts at Dell Technology and Dell EMC. With her technology passion, she is also the SC19 (Supercomputing worldwide conference, 2019) communications chair. For her night job, Amanda is mentoring Lawyers Club of San Diego’s legislative efforts in Sacramento. If she’s not working, she’s traveling the world looking for the perfect path less traveled with her daughter.