Cat Allman was a program manager in the Open Source Outreach and Making & Science teams at

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and Google lead of

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Career

Allman has been involved in open source software since the 1980s. She worked with the global

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community at

. She worked on

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and

Google Code-in Google Code-in (GCI) was an international annual programming competition hosted by Google LLC that allowed pre-university students to complete tasks specified by various, partnering open source organizations. The contest was originally the Google ...

. As well as developing programming skills, she is interested in the interpersonal aspects of engineering. She is on the board of directors at USENIX. She served as a jury member for

Falling Walls The Falling Walls Conference is an annual science event in Berlin, Germany, that coincides with the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (9 November 1989). The one-day scientific conference showcases the research work of international scient ...

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