Diane Mueller, director of Community Development for OpenShift at Red Hat, has been selected by the Cloud Network of Women (CloudNOW) as one of the Top 10 Women in Cloud for 2015.

CloudNOW, a non-profit group focusing on female-led teams solving business problems utilizing technology, will recognize the women at its fourth annual awards program later this month.

“CloudNOW’s recognition honors Diane’s 20+ years of work designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at Fortune 500 corporations,” Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) noted.

“At Red Hat, Diane focuses on cross-community collaboration and drives both customer and developer community initiatives to promote the success of OpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). She has been instrumental in the launch of OpenShift Commons, an open source community initiative to collaborate and deepen engagement with OpenShift and the technologies it is built upon.”

Who is Diane Mueller? In her own words

Diane Mueller’s profile at LinkedIn:

“I have been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at F500 corporations for over 20 years.I lead Community Development at Red Hat focusing on cross-community collaboration and driving both customer and developer community initiatives to ensure the success of OpenShift, the world’s leading Open Source Platform as a Service along with OpenStack and other Cloud initiatives at Red Hat. Founder of XBRLSpy Research Inc, I am a long-time XBRL Evangelist, and a XBRL Implementation Strategist. I am also a frequent commentator and lecturer on Financial Compliance, XML Standards, Open Source and Semantic Web technologies. I served on both the XBRL International Steering Committee and the Best Practices Board, chairing the software interoperability working group and the XBRL Rendering Technical Working Group, as well as an active member of the RIXML.org working group. Prior to Red Hat, I led the Cloud Product Strategy and Development efforts at ActiveState. ActiveState’s Stackato, a Cloud Foundry-based Enterprise Private PaaS. Recently named one of the top 100 Cloud Professionals on Google+: http:blog/2014/04/23/top-100-cloud-pros-google”

Other winners, as reported by NetworkWorld:

  • Adi Israel, TBM Consultant, Kaiser Permanente
  • Ann Wallace, Solutions Architect, Nike
  • Cornelia Davis, Director Platform Engineering, Pivotal
  • Jamie Miller, CIO, General Electric
  • Julie Iannelli, Director of Engineering, Calgary Scientific
  • Liz Centoni, VP GM, SP Access, Cisco
  • Mandy Storbakken, Principal Technologist, Medtronic
  • Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Head of User Experience, CloudFlare
  • Tana Jackson, Vice President Engineering, SOASTA

The winners will be recognized at the CloudNOW event on Sept. 24 in Menlo Park, Calif.