Michaela Demeter
Student Advocate
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarMichaela Demeter is a seasoned security researcher and advocate with a 7+ year focus on product and open source security, and a long engineering pedigree spanning firmware to full-stack development. At Intel she served as Security Champion and Product Security Expert for open source, shaping Secure Development Lifecycle governance and coordinating vulnerability responses across global teams. She pairs hands-on technical depth—kernel and driver development, Clear Linux security features, and SDIO/WiMax bring-up—with public speaking and writing on technical and diversity topics. An active community leader, she volunteers as a TrevorChat Crisis Counselor and partners with Women Who Code, Women of Security, Portland Women in Tech, and the Diana Initiative to drive inclusion for underrepresented groups in STEM. Based in Portland, she also brings civic leadership experience as Chairperson of a rural fire protection district board and now supports students as a college Student Advocate. Notably, her career blends low-level embedded expertise with strategic security governance and grassroots diversity work, a combination that helps translate technical policy into people-centered outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
firmware10
uefi10
python10
react8
edk23
docker2
seccomp2
chroot2
container1
containerization1
podman1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
miki-intel-work/edk2
Oct 2022 - Apr 2023
EDK II
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
miki-intel-work/tianocore.github.io
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Tianocore website
Contributions:22 pushes in 5 days
reacttianocore
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