Individual Member Profile
Amy Marrich
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Amy has been involved in Open Source since its early years as both an Operator and as an Open Source Software Development Manager. She joined the OpenStack community with the Grizzly release in 2013 while operating a private cloud and started contributing patches during the Mitaka release while at Rackspace. Over the years she has become a Core Reviewer on several projects and has held various leadership roles. She currently serves on the Open Infrastructure Foundation Board of Directors and is Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. In addition, she is a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, chair of the OIF Inclusion Working Group, and previously served as the chair of the OpenStack User Committee. Amy is currently employed at Red Hat as an Open Source Evangelist and Principal Technical Marketing Manager while also serving as the Community Architect for the RDO Project.
- Red Hat, Inc. - From 2020-03-16 (Current)
- Rackspace - From 2014-10-27 To 2017-01-13
- Hero of the People - Boston 2017
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Block Storage (Cinder),Ansible playbooks to deploy OpenStack (Openstack-ansible),Ansible playbooks and roles for deployment (OpenStackAnsible),Openstack-ansible,RPM-packaging,Packaging-rpm
- Hands-On Migration from VMware to OpenStack with Ansible and AWX
- OpenStack Technical Committee at the Open Source Pavilion
- OpenStack Technical Committee at the Open Source Pavilion
- OpenInfra Inclusion Working Group at the Open Source Pavilion
- OpenStack Technical Committee Meet and Greet
- From Zero to Code - How to get started in OpenStack
- Diversity Survey Feedback Session
- Meet the Open Infrastructure Foundation's Board of Directors
- Speed Mentoring
- Git and Gerrit Hands-on Workshop
- Meet the Diversity and Inclusion WG
- What is OpenStack and what services do I need?
- “I don’t qualify” and other tales: impact of hiring processes on diversity on open source
- Divisive Language and what you should know
- Onboarding into the OpenStack Community with Git and Gerrit
- Diversity Working Group BoF
- Diversity and Inclusion WG
- RSVP REQUIRED: Speed Mentoring Lunch sponsored by Intel
- The Results are in for the D&I survey.
- Operator, end user and Public cloud feedback
- Diversity and Inclusion WG Update
- Speed Mentoring Lunch
- Mentoring Program Reboot
- Git and Gerrit Hands-on Workshop
- Long Term Mentoring - Keeping the party going!
Amy is a candidate in the January 2026 Board Elections .
Amy has been nominated enough times to appear on the election ballot. You can read the answers Amy gave to the election questions below.
Currently serve as co-chair of the governing board, chair of the Goals Committee, member of the Finance Committee and on the OpenStack Technical Committee.
I serve as the Chair of the CentOS Project Board of Directors and on the CHAOSS Project Board of Directors. This experience with different open source boards gives me a wider view of how other projects operate and also how other projects interacts.
The Boards role is to guide the Foundation and the overall projects to ensure the longevity of both and to help them to grow and be more sustainable into the future.
The top priority of the Board is to help over see the continued integration into the Linux Foundation and to help guide decisions to which will ensure the longevity of the Foundation and projects in the coming years.
Amy has already been nominated by:
- Julia Kreger
- Dennis DeMarco
- Allison Randal
- Mohammed Naser
- Ghanshyam Maan
- Kurt Garloff
- Jeremy Stanley
- ChangBo Guo
- Allison Price
- Mark Collier
