Celeste is an open source advoate and leader. She has worked in open source software since 2025.

Affiliations

Sr. OSS Advocate/OSPO Lead

September 2025 -

I currently act as the lead of Snowflake’s Open Source Programs Office and OSS DevRel to the Postgres and Apache Spark communities.

Aiven

Developer Educator

December 2022 - June 2025

Worked with the Developer Relations team to produce high quality technical content for Aiven database & cloud native developers.

Linux Foundation

Staff Technical Writer

June 2021 - January 2022

Senior Technical Writer

January 2020 - June 2021

I worked at the Linux Foundation as a Staff Technical Writer on Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects.

I wrote documentation, designed/developed project websites, mentored projects on documentation best practices, and ran Techdocs Office Hours.

Latest blog post

Jan. 20, 2026: Data vibes: What’s good at FOSDEM 2026 and beyond?

FOSDEM and its gaggle of colocated events, meetups and more is upon us! FOSDEM is regularly one of my favorite events of the year to attend and support. Mostly for my own benefit, here’s what’s on and interesting in the data space across the week across the data engineering and cloud computing spaces? I’ll divide this list into three categories: pre-FOSDEM weekend, FOSDEM devrooms and stands, and post-FOSDEM weekend. A 🌟indicates something I know I’ll be attending....

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