Vicky Vergara
Member Board Of Directors at pgRouting
Greater Mexico City, State of Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolVicky Vergara is an economist-turned-computer scientist and open source geospatial engineer with 12 years of experience, based in Greater Mexico City. She serves on the OSGeo Board of Directors, leads the pgRouting project, and is a Senior Software Engineer at Georepublic Japan, blending domain knowledge in economics with deep technical work on routing and spatial analytics. A hands-on backend developer, she has contributed to high-profile projects like GEOS, Valhalla, PDAL and PotreeConverter, often driving C++17 modernization, performance optimizations and meticulous code-quality fixes. Her work is notable for tackling subtle compiler and conversion warnings across core geometry and routing engines—an indication of a developer who prevents bugs at the build level rather than after deployment. This combination of policy-minded economics training and low-level systems craftsmanship gives her a rare perspective on building reliable, production-grade geospatial infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisBachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Github Skills (43)
openstreetmap10
optimizations10
code-optimization10
c-language10
geometry10
point-clouds10
compiler-errors10
routingslip10
routing-slip10
pointclouds10
c1110
c1710
routes10
warnings10
optmization10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
libgeos/geos
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Geometry Engine, Open Source
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 15 PRs, 22 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vicky primarily focused on fixing conversion warnings and removing compiler warnings within the codebase. These changes involved modifying code across various directories, including tests, and the core geometry engine files. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code quality, particularly by addressing potential issues flagged by the compiler and ensuring the code compiles without warnings. The user also refactored the code by removing conversion warnings from core files.
cppgeometric-algorithmsc-plus-plusopenglgeometry-library
valhalla/valhalla
Feb 2023 - May 2024
Open Source Routing Engine for OpenStreetMap
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 31 PRs, 74 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Vicky's primary contribution focused on improving the codebase of the Valhalla routing engine. This involved addressing compiler warnings, particularly those related to deprecated features and uninitialized variables, by modifying code in multiple files. They also updated the code to align with C++17 standards, refactoring parts of the code and removing warnings. Additional contributions include addressing sign comparisons, and using filesystem for building the admin and other files.
osrmmulti-modalnominatimtileddijkstra
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