- Senior Community Manager for the OpenSearch Project, OpenSearch Software Foundation, & technical steering committee
- OpenSearch Software Foundation Ambassador - page - announcement
- Member of the OpenSearch Software Foundation Marketing Committee
- Member of the OpenSearch Project Leadership Committee - blog post - repo (Dec 2023 - Sep 2024)
- Come join the OpenSearch community
- Reach out to me on the OpenSearch Slack instance
- Pronouns: he/him
- Homepage krisfreedain.com
- Personal blog kris.haus
- Fosstodon.org Admin - the team - announcement - blog post
- Fosstodon Foundation Board Member - announcement
- Speaker bio and profile image.
- CHAOSScon Europe 2026 - Brussels, Belgium - January 29
- FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - January 31 & February 1
- Linux Foundation Member Summit - Napa, CA - February 24 & 25
- Scale 23x - Pasadena, CA - March 5-8
- OpenSearchCon China - Shanghai, China - March 17 & 18
- MCP Dev Summit - New York, New York - April 2 & 3
- OpenSearchCon Europe - Prague, Czechia - April 16 & 17
- Running the Unconference again! Hope you will join us.
- Closing Keynote
- DEVOXX France 2026 - Paris, France - April 22-24
- Berlin Buzzwords - Berlin, Germany - June 7-9
- OpenSearch Software Foundation: 1 Year of Open Governance
- Runing the OpenSearch Project sponsor booth
- OpenSearchCon India - Mumbai, India - June 15-16
- DevConf.CZ - Brno, Czech Republic - June 18-19
- Beyond Pull Requests: How Non-Code Contributions Scale Open Source Projects
- WeAreDevelopers World Congress - Berlin, Germany - July 8-10
Come say hello if you're at one of them!