Denise is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub, within the Communities Department where she gets to build tools to help make life as awesome as possible for maintainers and contributors in Open Source communities. She lives in Toronto with her partner and two cats named Sam and Lily. When she’s not traveling between conferences, she enjoys cooking and eating spicy food, crocheting ambitious projects, and sinking unbelievable amounts of time into completing every side quest in the latest JRPG.