Vera Moone
Software Engineer at Polygon.io
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVera Moone is a software engineer with six years of experience building cloud-native and Kubernetes-focused backend systems, currently contributing to Polygon.io's backend platform. She is a Golang enthusiast who has improved developer experience and tooling—adding JSON CLI outputs and tightening YAML handling—in notable open-source projects like Replicated's KOTS. Her background spans cloud software roles at Keysight and research-driven engineering at Georgia Tech, giving her a strong systems and reliability mindset. Vera has also contributed to Polygon's official Python client and to the popular eris error-handling library, highlighting cross-language fluency and attention to observability. Based in Atlanta, she blends production-grade engineering with DevOps practices, often working on the intersection of packaging, deployment, and runtime diagnostics. Colleagues describe her as someone who prefers shipping small, high-impact improvements that make complex Kubernetes workflows clearer and more automatable.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
stock-data10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
websocket10
go10
websockets-client10
api10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
error-handling10
websocket-client10
devops10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rotisserie/eris
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
Error handling library with readable stack traces and flexible formatting support 🎆
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 101 PRs, 255 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vera contributed to the `eris` error handling library by implementing and improving error wrapping functionalities. Their commits focused on adding stack trace implementations, modifying error handling methods to correctly handle various error types, and integrating a default error printer. They also made changes to improve error wrapping and test cases, ensuring the library's core functionalities related to error handling and tracing are robust.
golangtracesstack-traceserror-tracesreadable
polygon-io/client-python
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The official Python client library for the Polygon REST and WebSocket API.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 30 reviews, 20 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vera contributed to the Python client library for the Polygon REST and WebSocket API. Their work included bumping the minimum Python version, adding contract type to models, fixing an OTC field in the WebSocket equity aggregate, adding indicators to the WebSocket equity model, and updating the REST specification. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's functionality, data models, and compatibility.
apipythonstock-pricesstocks-apiclient-library
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