Valerie Aurora
Systems Software Consultant And Crisis Engineer at Bow Shock
Netherlands
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Top SchoolValerie Aurora is a systems software consultant and crisis engineer based in the Netherlands with 25+ years of deep experience in operating systems, file systems, and networking and 12 years of professional engineering experience reflected across kernel-to-cloud roles. She has led technical design and incident work at companies from Sun and Intel (contributing to ZFS and Linux file systems) to Red Hat and startups, and now advises on high-stakes system reliability and standards work such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act. Valerie pairs hands-on kernel and backend engineering with leadership in culture change—cofounding and directing The Ada Initiative and later helping 100+ companies fix systemic culture problems as a director and DEI coach. An active open-source contributor, she improves both front-end user experience and Python backend robustness in community projects like neveragaindottech and semiphemeral, where her changes improved accessibility, performance, and security. Collected experience in debugging silent data corruption, designing novel network algorithms, and crafting codes of conduct gives her a rare combination of low-level technical mastery and organizational resilience expertise.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Mathematics (double degree, under the name Valerie Henson), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Mathematics (double degree, under the name Valerie Henson) at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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Github Skills (14)
html10
content-management-system10
tweepy10
content-management10
python10
jekyll10
twitter-api10
json9
configuration-management8
css8
management8
ui-design7
graphical-user-interface7
user-interface7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
neveragaindottech/neveragaindottech.github.io
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Source files for the neveragain.tech site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 days
Contributions summary:Valerie primarily focused on updating the website's content and structure. They added a "pledge" section, a credits section, and resources pages, and reorganized content to enhance user navigation. The user also implemented features to improve the user experience, such as adding links to instructions and making the content more accessible. Their work significantly improved the site's informational content and user experience.
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micahflee/semiphemeral
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Automatically delete your old tweets, except for the ones you want to keep
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Valerie primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Python backend of the `semiphemeral` project. Their work included correcting typos, removing duplicate imports, resolving issues with direct message file parsing, and addressing problems related to proxy settings. They also implemented a fix to prevent excessive API calls by bailing out when Twitter returned empty DM responses, improving the application's performance. Additionally, the user implemented a security measure to make the settings file readable only to the user.
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