Katy F
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKaty F is a software engineer based in New York with three years of hands-on experience building backend systems and contributing to impactful open-source projects. She has worked on VMware's widely used open-vm-tools, enhancing guest identification and TimeSync functionality—demonstrating attention to low-level integrations and cross-platform reliability. A UC Berkeley economics graduate with study time at LSE, she combines analytical rigor with curiosity about new tech stacks and creative software solutions. Katy is motivated by technology's potential for positive global impact and spends free time exploring emerging tools and building side projects. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic developer who bridges system-level detail work with product-minded thinking.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at University of California, BerkeleyLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (6)
c1710
linux10
vmware10
c1110
plugin-development9
networking8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
vmware/open-vm-tools
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Official repository of VMware open-vm-tools project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 41 commits, 16 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Katy primarily focused on modifications to header files within the `open-vm-tools` project. These changes included adjustments to definitions related to versions, atomic operations, CPUID flags, and the addition of support for Linux guest identification by enhancing the guest identification code, which provides additional details for Linux guests. The user also implemented functionalities for the TimeInfo feature in the TimeSync plugin, including subscribing and unsubscribing to notifications, enabling the tool to query and receive updates for time-related information. Additionally, several modifications were done, replacing "disabled" with "deactivated."
vmware
microsoft/sbom-tool
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts.
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
sbomspdxsbom-generator
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