Victoria Fierce
Director Of Operations
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictoria Fierce is a Director of Operations and seasoned software engineer with 17 years of professional experience and over 15 years contributing to Free and Open Source Software. She combines executive leadership in nonprofit operations with deep technical fluency across hardware, firmware, kernel, userspace, and full-stack software, including expertise in multimedia stacks like OpenGL and GStreamer. A practiced machinist and lifelong tinkerer, she pairs practical shop-floor skills (8+ years) with systems-level engineering in languages from GCode and Ruby to C++ and Rust. Victoria has a track record of stabilizing and improving core infrastructure—her open-source work includes backend bug fixes for the cross-distro PackageKit package manager. Adept at organizing distributed communities, fundraising, and cutting through bureaucratic inertia, she thrives equally as Employee #1 or as an executive. Based in Oakland, she brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering, community stewardship, and strategic operational discipline.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Akron
Spanish, c++
Github Skills (8)
yum10
package-manager10
backend10
python10
back-end-development10
cmake9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
PackageKit/PackageKit
Nov 2008 - Jan 2009
A D-BUS abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Victoria primarily contributed to bug fixes within the PackageKit repository. They addressed issues related to incorrect file paths for QT libraries within the CMake configuration and resolved a bug preventing the installation of local files in the yum backend. Additionally, they merged a branch and made changes to the backend and yumBackend.py files. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the package management system.
secureapid-buslinuxbus
phrobo/graviton
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:220 commits, 11 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 2 months
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