Victoria De La Cruz is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience specializing in OpenStack and cloud storage/telemetry systems. A licentiate in Computer Science and long-time FOSS advocate, she has contributed deep backend and database expertise to prominent OpenStack projects like Horizon, Trove and Rally—work that includes MariaDB datastore integration, quota and UI improvements, and benchmarking integrations for Zaqar. At Red Hat she has progressed from associate engineer to senior roles, leading driver updates for Manila, serving as a core reviewer, and shaping observability through the Service Telemetry Framework. Known for bridging product vision and engineering, she also mentors community contributors and was selected for a company-wide leadership accelerator, reflecting both technical depth and team influence. An avid open-source collaborator, she combines pragmatic bug fixes with strategic enhancements that help users adopt newer platform features.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate in Computer Sciences, Computer Science, Licentiate in Computer Sciences, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional del Sur
OpenStack Database As A Service (Trove). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Victoria primarily contributed to the OpenStack Trove project, focusing on database-related aspects. Their work involved fixing bugs related to configuration file locations and migration issues, specifically for MySQL and MariaDB. The user also added support for the MariaDB datastore, including the necessary configuration options, integrating it with the existing MySQL infrastructure and adding hooks. They also addressed issues related to auditing and notifications within the project.
Rally provides a framework for performance analysis and benchmarking of individual OpenStack components as well as full production OpenStack cloud deployments. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Victoria primarily contributed to adding and testing Zaqar client integration within the Rally framework for OpenStack. Their work involved implementing client handling, integrating Zaqar into the client library, and writing test cases. They also added cleanup functionalities for Zaqar resources, along with addressing dependency issues and improving the fakes interface. Further, they developed scenarios for benchmarking Zaqar queue creation and consumer-producer operations.
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Victoria De La Cruz - Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat