Fionnuala Word
Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Hypori
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFionnuala Word is a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience designing automated, secure infrastructure and shipping infrastructure-as-code at scale from Denver. She has matured through roles at Hypori—from security software developer to principal cloud lead—bringing a rare blend of Linux systems, DevOps, and security engineering expertise. Her open-source work on the RPM package manager demonstrates hands-on contributions to supply-chain security, adding file signature support and careful refactors to safeguard package contents. Comfortable operating across cloud platforms and low-level system details, she excels at turning manual operations into auditable, automated pipelines that reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (10)
c1710
it-security10
c1110
package-management10
digital-signature10
security10
build-tools9
package-manager9
package-manager-tool9
rpm8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rpm-software-management/rpm
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
The RPM package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:15 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Fionnuala primarily focused on enhancing the RPM package manager's security features. They implemented file signature support by adding new tags and integrating file digest signing using a key. The user also refactored existing code, such as `copyFile`, and added functionality to store and manage file signatures within the package header, contributing to the secure handling of package content.
build-toolpackage-managerpackages
pandnp/ima-setup
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:92 commits in 7 months
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