Vicky Risk
Director Of Marketing at Internet Systems Consortium
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVicky Risk is a seasoned product and marketing leader with over 10 years at the intersection of technology product management and open-source software, currently directing Product and Marketing at Internet Systems Consortium in San Jose. She combines an MBA and PMP discipline with deep hands-on experience driving post-merger acquisition integrations and bringing complex networking products to market from her long tenure at Cisco. At ISC she not only oversees go-to-market strategy for projects like BIND and Kea but contributes to developer-facing documentation, improving usability for robust infrastructure software such as the Kea DHCP server. Known as a quick study who turns ideas into practical programs, she balances strategic advocacy with attention to technical detail and user-facing clarity. Beyond corporate roles, she’s demonstrated personal resilience and leadership in demanding caregiving roles, underscoring a pragmatic, people-centered approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
HS Diploma, HS Diploma at Phillips Academy, AndoverMBA Business, MBA Business at Simmons UniversityPhilosophy, Philosophy at Princeton University
Github Skills (4)
sphinx10
documentation10
networking7
dhcp7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
isc-projects/kea
Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
A modern, scalable, robust DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server, with database (MySQL, PostgreSQL), hooks, multi-threading, RADIUS, NETCONF, Kerberos and more.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:187 commits, 16 comments, 10 issues in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Vicky primarily contributed to the Kea project by updating and improving the documentation. Their commits focused on clarifying existing documentation, adding section titles, refining the text for clarity, and characterizing diagrams. They also addressed deprecated features and provided installation instructions updates. This indicates a focus on enhancing the usability and comprehensibility of the Kea documentation for both new and existing users.
multi-threadingdhcpv6dhcpddhcpv4ipv4-address
isc-projects/dhcp
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
ISC DHCP is enterprise grade, open source solution for DHCP servers, relay agents, and clients, supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and is suitable for use in high-volume and high-reliability applications.
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 2 months
ipv4isc-dhcpfreebsdfailoverisc
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