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Devin Ulibarri is a versatile musician with a diverse portfolio. He has compositions published in Conceptions Southwest magazine, a range of teaching experience—from preschool to college level—and has performed with artists such as Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. He holds two college degrees in music, a BM and MM in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of New Mexico and New England Conservatory, respectively. His studies at the New England Conservatory were under the tutelage of world-renowned musician, Eliot Fisk, who he has continued to work closely with for the Boston GuitarFest (2010-present) and publication-assistance (SoundBoard Magazine). Most recently, Devin has collaborated with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs to design Music Blocks, a software libre tool to explore music's fundamental concepts, which they debuted at the 2016 Constructionism conference hosted in Bangkok, Thailand.

Devin Ulibarri has been involved in Sugar Labs for ten years. Ulibarri has been involved in education for twenty years, and he's advocated for free/libre/open (FLO) source software, particularly in education, for the past ten years. For two years from January 2022 to January 2024, he worked as Outreach and Communications Coordinator at the Free Software Foundation.

 

At Sugar Labs, Ulibarri has worked closely with Walter Bender to create Music Blocks visual programming language. In addition to this, he's mentored for GSoC and GCI, and he has held a seat for both SLOBS (when Sugar Labs was a member org for Software Freedom Conservancy [SFC]) as well as the Board of Directors for Sugar Labs Inc. (the current governing board).

 

 

Currently, Ulibarri is executive director for Sugar Labs Inc. and runs day-to-day operations, communications, fundraising, and program management.