New TODO Member: Wipro (Andrew Aitken)
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Chris Aniszczyk
Feb 23, 2018, 11:02:00 AM2/23/18
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Hey all, I'd like to introduce Andrew Aitken who has been involved in open source for quite a long time through the think tank, olliance and now runs the open source program/practice at wipro: https://github.com/WiproOpenSourcePractice. Here's his bio:
Andrew Aitken is the GM & Global Open Source Practice leader for Wipro. In this capacity he is responsible for crafting and executing Wipro’s open source strategy.
Mr. Aitken has served as an open source expert to the White House and California Senate and as a guest lecturer at Stanford’s Entrepreneur program. He is an investor in Mautic and on the Board of Advisors of various open source companies. He is past Board Member of OSEHRA, an initiative spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide open source-based cost effective healthcare solutions for veterans. He has personally worked with organizations such as Capital One, Microsoft, the U.S. Navy, and many startups, assisting them with developing their open source strategies.
In 1988 Andrew joined Olliance Inc., a venture backed open source startup, in 2001 he acquired the assets of Olliance Inc., and launched Olliance Consulting Group to provide management and strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source. In 2010 he sold Olliance to Black Duck Software.
For 10 years Mr. Aitken hosted the Open Source Think Tank, held annually in Napa, CA, considered a must-attend event by the industry’s leading CEO’s and visionaries.
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Mr. Aitken has served as an open source expert to the White House and California Senate and as a guest lecturer at Stanford’s Entrepreneur program. He is an investor in Mautic and on the Board of Advisors of various open source companies. He is past Board Member of OSEHRA, an initiative spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide open source-based cost effective healthcare solutions for veterans. He has personally worked with organizations such as Capital One, Microsoft, the U.S. Navy, and many startups, assisting them with developing their open source strategies.
In 1988 Andrew joined Olliance Inc., a venture backed open source startup, in 2001 he acquired the assets of Olliance Inc., and launched Olliance Consulting Group to provide management and strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source. In 2010 he sold Olliance to Black Duck Software.
For 10 years Mr. Aitken hosted the Open Source Think Tank, held annually in Napa, CA, considered a must-attend event by the industry’s leading CEO’s and visionaries.
About Wipro and Open Source
Wipro Technology was the first global systems integrator to instantiate an open source practice and today has 10s of thousands of open source consultants working on projects from digital transformation to legacy modernization and cloud migration and microservices to AI/ML applications.
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