Emily Kurze has spent the last 16 years working in a number of roles across a variety of technologies from enterprise SCADA to educational robotics and open source software. She has spent time as a technical trainer and marketer supporting a number of leading open source projects including Linux, Kubernetes, Hyperledger. In those roles, she has supported developer training and certification efforts aligned to those open source communities. She currently leads the InfluxDB University program at InfluxData.