Sally Ann O'Malley is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, where she has made significant contributions to teams within OpenShift and the Emerging Technologies organization. For the past decade, she has been instrumental in integrating cutting-edge tools and ideas into Red Hat's portfolio. Her recent projects, including Image Based Operating Systems, Podman, OpenTelemetry, and Sigstore, showcase her deep commitment to open-source. Sally shares her expertise as an instructor within Boston University’s College of Data Science. Furthermore, she is an organizer for DevConf.US, a developer focused conference for open-source. Most recently, Sally was honored as the recipient of the 2025 Paul Cormier Trailblazer award within Red Hat, and her current focus includes the incubation of the llm-d project and its community, where she is a founding contributor dedicated to building distributed, scalable, high-performance AI inferencing solutions.