Candace Lazarou
Security Engineer at Marqeta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCandace Lazarou is a Security Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building security guardrails that let engineering teams spend less time worrying and more time creating. At Marqeta she focuses on pragmatic, developer-friendly security controls that scale in fast-paced payments environments. Her background blends hands-on web development training with technical operations leadership at NGOs, giving her a practical, systems-oriented approach to securing infrastructure and workflows. She also spent years growing community as East Bay Co-Director for Women Who Code, demonstrating a commitment to mentorship and inclusive engineering culture. Trained originally in music engineering, she brings a creative, interdisciplinary mindset to threat modeling and automation. Colleagues describe her work as quietly effective—reducing operational friction while keeping complex systems auditable and resilient.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
12 week immersive web development course, 12 week immersive web development course at Dev BootcampMusic Engineering, Music Engineering at University of North Carolina at Asheville
Github Skills (13)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
estate7
tinder6
javascript5
react3
nodejs3
borrowing3
validate2
validation1
electron1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cclazarou/phase-0-tracks
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:127 PRs, 77 pushes, 114 branches in 2 months
WomenWhoCode/horror-movie-app
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
javascriptjavascript-projectbay
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