Quintessence A
Executive Director at Nivenly Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolQuintessence A is an executive technology leader with over 15 years of experience who builds sustainable, equitable governance and developer ecosystems for open source and cloud-native projects. As Executive Director of the Nivenly Foundation she founded a decentralized non-profit co‑operative, authored its governance model and bylaws, and scales volunteer-run operations to support maintainer oversight. She combines hands-on cloud and infrastructure chops from roles at ACV Auctions and Stark & Wayne with deep developer advocacy expertise—designing launch strategies, contributor programs, and DevRel teams for startups and enterprises alike. Quintessence is fluent in hardware, Linux, databases, and data migration in distributed environments, and applies that technical rigor to make data secure, compliant, and actionable for communities. Based in Seattle and active across community education and standards (including SPIF/E advocacy), she blends policy, engineering, and community-building in ways that extend project sustainability beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Mathematics and Engineering, Associate of Science (A.S.) Mathematics and Engineering at Corning Community CollegeBachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics at University at BuffaloSSP
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Github Skills (130)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PagerDuty/devsecops-docs
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
DevSecOps Guide, located devsecops.pagerduty.com
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 10 months
devopspagerdutysecurityansiblekubernetes
quintessence/gopress
Sep 2014 - Jan 2017
Go app converts Markdown files to HTML/impressJS presentations
Contributions:72 commits, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
golangmarkdownimpressjs
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