Elaine Laguerta
Security Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElaine Laguerta is a Security Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of technical and interdisciplinary experience, focused on backend systems and application security. She brings a background that spans research-grade power-grid simulations, creative code fellowships, and landscape architecture—an unusual blend that informs her pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to engineering. At New Relic she contributes to reliability and error-handling in backend agents, including work on the widely used newrelic-ruby-agent, and emphasizes maintainable, test-driven code. A former director of Women Who Code San Francisco, she values mentorship and believes high-performing teams are defined by their ability to teach and empower others.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science, Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science, Music at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Oregon State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
error-handling10
agent10
apm-agent10
testing10
http9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 1 PR in 5 days
Contributions summary:Elaine contributed to the New Relic Ruby Agent, primarily focusing on testing and error handling. They modified test cases for HTTP client interactions, ensuring correct header behavior and configurations. The user also refactored code related to error status code parsing, and added tests for Integer status codes. Further contributions included reverting configuration changes related to error handling.
agentrpmapm-agentrubyruby-agent
elaguerta/data-covid19-sfbayarea
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Manual and automated processes of sourcing data for the stop-covid19-sfbayarea project
Contributions:138 pushes, 17 branches in 8 months
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