Vaishali Palve Avhad
Independent Open Source ConsultantAn independent OSS compliance consultant with over 13 years’ experience, she is an expert in the concept of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) aligned to OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 standards. She specializes in defining OSPO strategy, governance, OSPO roles, and stakeholder processes to codify open-source policy, license use, and SBOM/SCA tooling across teams. She has led OSS license scanning (Fossology, Black Duck), risk analysis, and documentation while collaborating across legal, quality, infrastructure, information security, and development functions. Dedicated to empowering organisations with mature OSS compliance frameworks, she helps bridge process, compliance, and ecosystem alignment.