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

May. 1, 2023: Bluesky and the quandry of invite-only spaces

A preamble: the most exclusive event I’ve been to A couple of years ago, I sat in a hotel suite in Napa Valley, California. The suite was one of 200 surrounding a golf corse in the Marin County highlands, and nearly the entire resort had been rented out for the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Leadership Summmit , as it was every other year, when the summit wasn’t being held in Aspen....

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