With degrees in computer science and technical communications in hand, Marcia started her GNU Linux career as an intern at the Free Software Foundation in 2002. Author of Linux Essentials for universities worldwide in cooperation with Comptia Linux+ certification in 2003, signing a non compete spiraled her career to migrations, implementations, integrations and system administration until she could legally train again. Coding using GNU Linux based systems for AIOT came next with experience with Tensorflow, YOLO, Imagenet, etc. She created documentation and distros with working AI demos for raspberry pi. Her favorite languages are bash, python and C/C++. She is a technical editor for John Wiley publishing and has worked on Beaglebone and other books. She is the lead Debian developer for Libre Respin, a distro customization and backup utility.