Adrianna Frick has worked on technical skills validation exams and credentials for companies including Canonical and knows what separates good certs from bad. She began her journey in open source in the late 1990s at Walnut Creek CDROM working with teams from Slackware Linux and FreeBSD among others. As someone who has experienced the employment volatility of tech bubbles, and as someone who left and returned to the industry after career changes, educational gaps, and family caregiving, she is dedicated to making new career pathways and opportunities for professional accomplishment that allow anyone from any background to prove their abilities, whether gained in a traditional educational environment, professional experience, or through home lab experiments and self-study.