Laura Denker
Staff Software Engineer at Google
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Denker is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience focused on developer productivity, continuous integration/deployment, and scaling both systems and engineering teams. Based in Rochester, NY, she has spent most of her career at Google in progressive SRE and engineering leadership roles, driving developer workflow, testing practices, and large-scale data migrations. Earlier work at Etsy shows a hands-on track record of boosting deployment velocity, building CI/CD tooling, and open-sourcing productivity-focused solutions. She combines deep technical skills in software architecture, design patterns, dependency injection, and xUnit testing with people-centered initiatives like developer training and community building. Known for measuring developer happiness and throughput as engineering signals, she brings both pragmatic operational experience and a data-driven approach to improving team efficiency. Her background in computational mathematics and computer science underpins a penchant for practical tooling that scales across organizations.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computational Mathematics at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
unit-testing-framework10
unit-testing10
php10
etsy10
phpunit10
testing10
dbunit5
codeception4
mocking2
saucelabs2
behat2
runner1
phpcs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
etsy/phpunit-extensions
Feb 2011 - Aug 2013
Etsy PHPUnit Extensions
Contributions:66 commits in 2 years 5 months
phpphpunitextensionsetsy
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