Denise is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub, currently helping maintainers make open source work more sustainable via the GitHub Sponsors program. Before transitioning into management, she worked on a number of different tools to make GitHub a safer and more collaborative space for communities to interact. Before that, she worked on various open source and enterprise cloud tools at Pivotal. She lives in Toronto with her partner and two cats, and when she’s not at her computer you’ll find her hunting for the best late-night dim sum in town.