Vicki Niu
Senior Software Engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVicki Niu is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building resilient backend and infrastructure systems. She has driven production-grade distributed systems and DevOps work at companies like Discord and Interstellar (formerly Chain), contributing to Raft consensus improvements, snapshotting, and CI/CD fixes that kept complex services reliable. Vicki pairs systems-level expertise—shipping RocksDB/Snappy integration and Docker CI fixes—with practical cryptography and blockchain experience from talks at GothamGo and GopherCon EU. She’s delivered civic tech impact as a volunteer at U.S. Digital Response and an NYC[x] Innovation Fellow, powering millions of voter lookups. A Stanford-trained technologist, she blends low-level engineering rigor with a product-minded approach to make “computers go brrr” in real-world, high-scale environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science || Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, Bachelor's degree Computer Science || Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University
Github Skills (12)
raft10
go10
devops10
blockchain10
dockers9
cicd9
distributed-systems9
docker9
unit-testing8
postgresql8
snappy7
rocksdb7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chain/Core
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Chain Core
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 20 PRs, 54 pushes in 29 days
Contributions summary:Vicki primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and DevOps aspects of the project. They made changes to the Raft consensus algorithm implementation, including adding unit tests, improving node eviction, and snapshotting mechanisms. They also implemented core configuration features and included a fix for stale raft configurations. Additionally, the user worked on the CI/CD pipeline by installing RocksDB and Snappy dependencies and resolving build issues within the Docker environment.
ethereumblockchainas-a-servicechainopen-core
vickiniu/abolish-nypd
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Resources, information, and actions on defunding (and abolishing) the NYPD
Contributions:48 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
nypd
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