Ala is a Product Line Managerat Broadcom, working at the intersection AI, security, and modern applications. Before joining VMware, she headed up engineering operations for SS&C Eze’s Eclipse platform, held customer facing roles at Veracode, a leader in application security, and wore many hats at Best Practical Solutions, maker of the leading open-source ticketing system, Request tracker. She is continuing her work in open source as the subproject lead for Self Assessments in SIG Security.