Presenter

Vanessa Sochat is a Computer Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and a research software engineer for over a decade. She received her PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, and has done extensive work in Open Source developing container technologies, supporting tools, and fostering open source communities. She founded and hosts the Research Software Engineer Stories podcast and is an active member of the US Research Software Engineer Association, along with the Open Container Initiative. In her current role, she is studying ABI compatibility in the context of containers and solvers. In her free time, Vanessa likes working on fun programming projects, learning new programming languages, running fast, and eating avocados.