Asheesh Laroia

During college, Asheesh organized the Xbox Linux project’s documentation into a wiki, submitted written testimony for the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s OPG v. Diebold case, revived the Johns Hopkins ACM chapter, and served as web team lead for Students for Free Culture. After graduation, he engineered software Creative Commons and the Participatory Culture Foundation and co-founded OpenHatch, a non-profit that helps people get involved in open source software. In 2011, he co-founded the Boston Python Workshop for women and their friends and delivered a talk at PyCon that triggered the formation of PyLadies. In 2013, he took a one-year vacation from free software-related work to hone his skills as a Security Engineer at Eventbrite. Asheesh is a Developer in Debian and holds a B.A. in cognitive science, with minors in women & gender studies and French literature, and an M.S.E. in computer science.