Vivian Nowka-keane
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVivian Nowka-keane is a software engineer with nine years of experience who focuses on low-level firmware and systems software, currently contributing to Microsoft's Core UEFI team. She has driven practical improvements to VM firmware—refactoring NVMe drivers for dynamic queue allocation and extending virtual PCIe capabilities—while owning GoogleTest unit testing bring-up for Project MU. Her background spans embedded firmware, cloud integrations, and web APIs from internships at Datto, Constant Contact, and Azure teams, giving her a rare full-stack view of system bring-up through cloud deployment. An active contributor to the prominent tianocore/edk2 repository, she’s applied disciplined QA and test automation to standardize code style and support long-lived open-source firmware projects. Colleagues would describe her as efficiency-minded and collaborative, able to translate low-level C and driver work into maintainable, testable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
c1710
firmware10
uefi10
googletest10
c1110
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
python3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
EDK II
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 15 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vivian primarily contributed to the project by applying uncrustify formatting to various GoogleTest files and headers. They focused on standardizing code style across multiple packages, including UnitTestFrameworkPkg, MdeModulePkg, MdePkg, and SecurityPkg, ensuring consistency within the repository. The user also addressed formatting issues in files related to mock libraries and SMM-related components. Further contributions included setting uncrustify to audit-only mode temporarily and addressing architectural MSRs.
uefipythonfirmwarec
VivianNK/edk2
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
EDK II
Contributions:70 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years
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