Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the OpenStack Foundation based in Seattle, WA. She first started working on Cinder and os-brick in the Liberty release and since then gotten involved in StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide & Portal, and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She has also worked as an election official for TC and PTL elections (Pike-Stein) and served as a track chair for the Barcelona, Boston, Sydney, Vancouver, & Berlin summits.

When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, or working to make upstream development a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.