Sumana Harihareswara
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Sumana Harihareswara is a project manager, programmer, and standup comedian who leads a consultancy to help open source projects level up. She led the rollout of the new PyPI.org, and has worked on Zulip, HTTPS Everywhere, Mailman, MediaWiki, and several other open source projects. Recently she has managed improvements to pip’s dependency resolver and user experience, coached and trained maintainers in management skills, and expedited the release of new versions of pipenv and autoconf. She’s working on a book to teach what she’s learned about rejuvenating legacy open source projects. She earned an Open Source Citizen Award in 2011 and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus in 2018, and participated in Recurse Center in 2013 and 2014. She lives in New York City and founded Changeset Consulting in 2015.
