Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Kate was one of the founders of SPDX, and is currently the specification coordinator. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, among others, and oversees other embedded projects hosted by the Linux Foundation. With over 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 Master's in computer science from University of Waterloo and Bachelor's of computer science from the University of Manitoba.