Tracy Jones
Retired at Retired Life
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTracy Jones is a retired software engineering leader with 13+ years of experience focused on distributed systems, performance profiling, and the full product lifecycle from concept to customer deployment. At VMware she progressed from release manager to senior manager and staff engineer, leading teams and shipping production-grade virtualization integrations. An active OpenStack Nova contributor, she made notable back-end and DevOps improvements to the VMware compute driver—streamlining virtual disk handling, image caching, and enabling remote debugging. Skilled in Python, Java, and C++, Tracy combines deep OO design with practical performance tuning to solve scale and reliability challenges. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she brings rare hands-on expertise from low-level compute integrations up through release and program management. Even in retirement she retains a contributor’s mindset and a track record of improving complex, widely used open-source cloud infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BS Statistics and Computer Science, Computer Science, BS Statistics and Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, DavisB.S., Statistics/Computer Science, B.S., Statistics/Computer Science at University of California at Davis
English
Github Skills (7)
openstack10
api10
python10
back-end-development10
service-design9
devops9
service-provider9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Jun 2013 - Sep 2016
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tracy primarily contributed to the VMware-specific compute driver within the OpenStack Nova project, focusing on bug fixes and refactoring. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to VMware vCenter Server connectivity and image caching, enhancing the stability and functionality of the VMware integration. Furthermore, the user implemented features for remote debugging, enabling the connection to external debuggers. The user refactored code to streamline processes like virtual disk creation and copying.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
tracyajones/SVPP
Dec 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.