A 17-year IT industry veteran, Andrea O. K. Wright (also known as "AOK") is a consultant with Chariot Solutions, a firm based in Fort Washington, PA that specializes in open source technologies. A languages enthusiast, she spoke about integrating Python with functional languages at PyGotham. She has presented about advanced classloading concepts and annotation processing at JavaOne and topics ranging from developing games in Ruby to thread safety at national and regional Ruby conferences including RubyConf and RailsConf. She chairs the Languages Content Committee for the annual Philly Emerging Tech Conference.