Margaret Fero
Founder at Neat Systems LLC
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMargaret Fero is a growth-oriented founder and former staff software engineer with a decade of experience blending technical security, documentation, and cross-functional leadership at startups. She has led corporate security programs, built documentation teams, and managed engineering and manager-coordination responsibilities that span incident response, tooling, and policy work. Margaret thrives on interdisciplinary collaboration—regularly partnering with HR, Customer Support, Sales, and Marketing—to translate technical constraints into clearer organizational goals and healthier team practices. She favors research-backed management and risk-aware product choices that prioritize sustainable user experience over short-term growth. Comfortable jumping into new challenges, she teaches cybersecurity courses, leads sponsorship and partnership efforts for nonprofits, and runs a consultancy helping startups resolve root-cause interdisciplinary problems. Based in Oakland, she brings a rare combination of technical hands-on experience, theatrical communication training, and language study that enhances her ability to explain complex issues to diverse audiences.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CIEE/Certificate Chinese Language and Culture (Theatre Focus), CIEE/Certificate Chinese Language and Culture (Theatre Focus) at Nanjing UniversityWomen's Immersion Academy 2020 (March-September) SEC401 SEC504 TBD Elective Course, Women's Immersion Academy 2020 (March-September) SEC401 SEC504 TBD Elective Course at SANS Technology InstituteHigh School Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities, High School Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities at Shady Side AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theatre Arts (Dramaturgy) and Comparative Languages & Linguistics (Mandarin and Spanish), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theatre Arts (Dramaturgy) and Comparative Languages & Linguistics (Mandarin and Spanish) at Earlham College
Arabic, English, Chinese, Spanish, Sign languages, Dutch, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (73)
python10
security10
javascript10
openlibrary10
owasp10
social-media10
decentralization10
placement10
application-security10
open-source10
react10
adblock9
playing9
activitypub9
application9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
phildini/bookwyrm
Feb 2023 - Jun 2025
Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
Contributions:19 reviews, 113 PRs, 123 pushes in 2 years 3 months
activitypub
Neat-Systems/Neat-Systems.github.io
Feb 2025 - Dec 2025
This is a repository for the Neat Systems website.
Contributions:7 PRs, 53 pushes, 24 branches in 9 months
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