Máirín is a senior principal interaction designer at Red Hat. A recipient of the O’Reilly Open Source Award, Máirín has over 15 years of expertise in user experience and design working in upstream Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities. Her portfolio includes a wide range of designs for FLOSS, from systems management tools; to desktop infrastructure and applications; to the cloud-based medical image processing project, ChRIS. Máirín has a masters' degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.