# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allison-randal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:54:24.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allison-randal"
name: "Allison Randal"
slug: "allison-randal"
description: "Allison Randal is a software developer and author. She was the chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, a member of the board of directors for The Perl Foundation, a director of the Python Software Foundation from 2010 to 2012, and the chairman of the Parrot Foundation. She is also the lead developer of Punie, the port of Perl 1 to Parrot. She is co-author of Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials and the Synopses of Perl 6. She was employed by O'Reilly Media. From August 2010 till February 2012, Randal was the Technical Architect of Ubuntu at Canonical."
tagline: "Computer writer"
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birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump