Emma Foley
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ireland
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Top SchoolEmma Foley is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience specializing in NFV, networking and telecoms, currently advancing cloud-native infrastructure at Red Hat. A First Class Honours Robotics Engineering graduate from the University of Limerick, she has a strong OpenStack background from multiple roles at Intel and in open-source projects. Her work spans hands-on engineering and technical documentation—she has improved clarity and usability in the high-profile openstack-manuals repository by fixing API references, QoS docs and glossary entries. Emma combines deep protocol and systems knowledge with a persistent curiosity for new technologies, regularly translating complex NFV concepts into practical implementation and readable docs. Colleagues know her for meticulous attention to detail and a knack for spotting terminology and usability issues that help teams deliver more maintainable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Robotics, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Robotics at University of Limerick
English, French
Github Skills (4)
restructuredtext10
rs10
documentation10
openstack9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:42 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Emma's contributions primarily involve documentation updates within the OpenStack manuals repository. They fix formatting inconsistencies, add documentation for features like hugepage size flavor properties and Quality of Service (QoS), and correct glossary entries. Their work includes adjusting API references, replacing incorrect terms with more appropriate ones, removing acronyms, and consolidating project codenames to improve the quality and clarity of the documentation.
manualsopendevopenstack
elfiesmelfie/telemetry-operator
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Operator that deploys and manages all the telemetry agents both in the podified control plane and in the external dataplane
Contributions:2 PRs, 81 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 1 month
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