Kate is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs responsible for the Open Compliance programs encompassing the SPDX, FOSSology, OpenChain and other compliance related projects. Kate was one of the original founders of SPDX, and is currently the specification lead. Since joining the Linux Foundation, Kate has also launched the Real-Time Linux and Zephyr Projects.
With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India and China. She received her Masters in Computer Science from University of Waterloo in 1987, and Bachelors of Computer Science (co-op program) from the University of Manitoba in 1985.