Joanna Farley
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoanna Farley is a seasoned engineering leader and Director of Software Engineering at Arm, bringing decades of hands-on software and firmware development experience across OS, virtualization, and interactive streaming technologies. She has led global teams of 20–30+ engineers at Arm and Citrix, translating product strategy into robust technical designs and reliable releases for complex embedded, server, and endpoint platforms. Joanna combines deep low-level expertise (OS/kernel, firmware, TCP/IP, compression and SoC architectures) with proven program and people leadership, building environments where innovation and sustained motivation thrive. An active open-source contributor and maintainer in the Trusted Firmware ecosystem, she has helped keep flagship ARM firmware projects accurate and current across major releases. Her background in performance engineering and virtualization (HDX, XenApp/XenDesktop) informs pragmatic decisions that optimize user experience across cloud, mobile and edge deployments. Based in East Hertfordshire, she pairs a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science with a track record of upstreaming and managing cross-geo engineering delivery.
8 years of coding experience
BSc (Hon) Computer Science, BSc (Hon) Computer Science at Hatfield Polytechnic
Github Skills (3)
documentation10
release-management10
git8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:135 commits, 15 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joanna Farley's commits focused on updating and maintaining the Readme and Change-log files for the arm-trusted-firmware repository. These updates primarily involved reflecting the changes and new features introduced in the v1.6 and v2.0 releases. The changes involved adding details about new features, including addressing speculation security vulnerabilities, adding RAS handling, and support for new platforms, as well as information on deprecated features in the subsequent releases.
firmware
joannafarley-arm/arm-trusted-firmware
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
Trusted Firmware-A
Contributions:20 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
trustedfirmware
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