Laura Santamaria
Principal Engineer at Red Hat
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolLaura Santamaria is a Principal Engineer and seasoned developer advocate with 12 years of experience bridging developer communities, product teams, and engineering across cloud-native and DevOps ecosystems. She has led DevRel and advocacy teams at Red Hat, Dell, Equinix, and Pulumi, shipping educational video programs, community strategy, and data-driven insights that influenced product roadmaps and conference programs. Hands-on across Python, JavaScript, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift, she pairs technical depth with documentation and pedagogy—having built docs tooling, learning programs, and PulumiTV content. Outside of product work she has a history of organizing large internal and public events, running volunteer crews in Austin, and mentoring beginners through workshops like Python for Women Who Code. Known for strategic thinking and an achiever mindset, she combines an editor’s attention to detail with a knack for turning community signals into measurable action.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Science of Earth Systems, Bachelor's Science of Earth Systems at Cornell University
German, Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (167)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
cloud-computing10
python10
testing10
terraform10
gcp10
infrastructure10
fsharp10
serverless10
helix10
javascript10
tencent10
dotnet10
pulumi10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/tutorial-pulumi-fundamentals
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
nimbinatus/deconst-raml-preparer
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
[Development] RAML preparer for deconst
Contributions:4 PRs, 126 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
reactraml
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.