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name: Sumana Harihareswara
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company: 'Comedian, Programmer'
city: 'New York City, USA'
photoURL: /images/speakers/sumana.jpg
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Sumana Harihareswara is a project manager, programmer, and standup comedian who leads Changeset Consulting, a consultancy that helps legacy open source projects level up -- and is working on a book to teach what she's learned about that (with projects like pip, Autoconf, and HTTPS Everywhere). She's earned an Open Source Citizen Award and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus, certified as a Carpentries instructor, and participated in Recurse Center in 2013 and 2014. She lives in New York City and microblogs at https://mastodon.social/@brainwane/ .
