Nomination
Nominee Name
Diane Mueller
GitHub: https://github.com/dmueller2001
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muellerdiane/
Short Personal Bio
Diane Mueller is a seasoned open-source leader with deep experience in decentralized identity, contributor engagement, and ecosystem governance. She currently serves as Hedera’s Strategic Advisor on Open Source Development, where she leads community strategy for the Hiero project and contributes to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) initiative. Diane is also Director of Research and Advisory Services at Bitergia, applying analytics-driven insights to support healthy community growth and sustainable open innovation.
Her career includes more than a decade at Red Hat as a Distinguished Community Architect and Director of Community Development for the OpenShift and cloud-native ecosystem. She founded the OpenShift Commons community and has contributed to multiple cross-foundation initiatives, including the CNCF Contributor Strategy SIG and CNCF Mentoring Working Group.
Short Personal Pitch
My recent work centers on advancing interoperable decentralized identity. I stewarded the Hiero DID initiatives—bringing multiple DID method SDKs into the community and coordinating alignment with AnonCreds, Credo-TS, OWF, and First-Person Credentials. Alongside this, I helped guide Hiero through its graduation process and led the Contributor Ladder Task Force to establish clear contributor pathways and strengthen community engagement.
I wish to serve on the OWF TSC to help drive deeper interoperability, strengthen cross-project collaboration, and expand accessible on-ramps for contributors, implementers, and enterprises. OWF plays a critical role in unifying standards, tooling, and communities across the digital identity ecosystem, and I am committed to supporting a vendor-neutral, collaborative future where wallet infrastructure is open, secure, and widely adopted.
Nomination
Nominee Name
Diane Mueller
GitHub: https://github.com/dmueller2001
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muellerdiane/
Short Personal Bio
Diane Mueller is a seasoned open-source leader with deep experience in decentralized identity, contributor engagement, and ecosystem governance. She currently serves as Hedera’s Strategic Advisor on Open Source Development, where she leads community strategy for the Hiero project and contributes to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) initiative. Diane is also Director of Research and Advisory Services at Bitergia, applying analytics-driven insights to support healthy community growth and sustainable open innovation.
Her career includes more than a decade at Red Hat as a Distinguished Community Architect and Director of Community Development for the OpenShift and cloud-native ecosystem. She founded the OpenShift Commons community and has contributed to multiple cross-foundation initiatives, including the CNCF Contributor Strategy SIG and CNCF Mentoring Working Group.
Short Personal Pitch
My recent work centers on advancing interoperable decentralized identity. I stewarded the Hiero DID initiatives—bringing multiple DID method SDKs into the community and coordinating alignment with AnonCreds, Credo-TS, OWF, and First-Person Credentials. Alongside this, I helped guide Hiero through its graduation process and led the Contributor Ladder Task Force to establish clear contributor pathways and strengthen community engagement.
I wish to serve on the OWF TSC to help drive deeper interoperability, strengthen cross-project collaboration, and expand accessible on-ramps for contributors, implementers, and enterprises. OWF plays a critical role in unifying standards, tooling, and communities across the digital identity ecosystem, and I am committed to supporting a vendor-neutral, collaborative future where wallet infrastructure is open, secure, and widely adopted.