Inessa Pawson

Inessa Pawson

NumPy, OpenTeams

Open Source Program Manager and Community Architect at OpenTeams, leading cross-organizational initiatives on sustainable collaboration between industry, academia, and open source ecosystems.

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Inessa Pawson has spent much of her career designing and delivering commercial digital products across diverse industries. Discovering the transformative impact of building in the open and becoming an active contributor to the Scientific Python ecosystem have entirely reshaped her professional mission. In her current role as Open Source Program Manager and Community Architect at OpenTeams, Inessa is leading cross-organizational initiatives centered on development of sustainable collaboration models between industry, academia, and open source ecosystems. She is perpetually fascinated by incentive design, collaborative intelligence, and jazz.