Vicky Vergara
Member Board Of Directors at Georepublic Japan
Greater Mexico City, State of Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolVicky Vergara is an Economist-turned-Computer Scientist with 12 years of software engineering experience who combines domain knowledge in economics with deep back-end expertise in geospatial and point-cloud systems. As a long-time open-source advocate and pgRouting project leader, she sits on the OSGeo Board of Directors and contributes to high-profile projects like PDAL, PotreeConverter, GEOS and Valhalla, focusing on code quality, performance and modernizing C++ codebases. Her work often targets subtle but impactful improvements—fixing compiler warnings, removing undefined behavior, and refactoring for C++17 compatibility—that increase maintainability and runtime efficiency across mapping and routing libraries. Based in Greater Mexico City, she holds a MS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a BA in Economics, a combination that informs pragmatic, data-driven engineering decisions. Colleagues know her as a steady technical steward who improves critical infrastructure quietly yet measurably.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Github Skills (33)
openstreetmap10
code-optimization10
c-language10
geometry10
compiler-errors10
routing-slip10
c1110
c1710
routes10
warnings10
optmization10
performance-optimization10
optimisation10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
libgeos/geos
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Geometry Engine, Open Source
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 15 PRs, 22 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vicky primarily focused on fixing conversion warnings and removing compiler warnings within the codebase. These changes involved modifying code across various directories, including tests, and the core geometry engine files. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code quality, particularly by addressing potential issues flagged by the compiler and ensuring the code compiles without warnings. The user also refactored the code by removing conversion warnings from core files.
cppgeometric-algorithmsc-plus-plusopenglgeometry-library
valhalla/valhalla
Feb 2023 - May 2024
Open Source Routing Engine for OpenStreetMap
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 31 PRs, 74 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Vicky's primary contribution focused on improving the codebase of the Valhalla routing engine. This involved addressing compiler warnings, particularly those related to deprecated features and uninitialized variables, by modifying code in multiple files. They also updated the code to align with C++17 standards, refactoring parts of the code and removing warnings. Additional contributions include addressing sign comparisons, and using filesystem for building the admin and other files.
osrmmulti-modalnominatimtileddijkstra
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