Leila Alderman
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeila Alderman is a self-taught software engineer transitioning into application security with 7 years of engineering experience and recent SANS Women's Immersion Academy training, holding GWAPT, GCIH, and GSEC certifications. She combines a developer’s pragmatism—demonstrated by top-10 contributions and maintenance work on The Odin Project and the widely used Active Merchant Ruby payments library—with a security-first mindset. Leila’s background in architectural engineering and formal training in copyediting give her a rare mix of systems thinking and clear technical communication, which she applies to documentation and process-driven work. A lifelong learner and curator of knowledge, she continually collects and organizes information to benefit teams and projects. Motivated by work that matters, she focuses on making products safer for users and their data while improving developer workflows.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Architectural Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Architectural Engineering, 4.0 at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's of Enginnering, Architectural Engineering, Master's of Enginnering, Architectural Engineering at Penn State UniversityWomen's Immersion Academy, Women's Immersion Academy at SANS Technology InstituteCertificate, Copyediting, Certificate, Copyediting at UC San Diego Extension
Github Skills (7)
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
object-oriented-programming9
xml8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 96 commits, 205 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Leila primarily contributed to enhancing the payment gateway functionality of the Active Merchant library. The contributions include implementing new features for specific payment gateways, such as adding new card types, adding new fields for transactions, and implementing true verify action. The user's work involved modifying core gateway code, including adding support for level 2 and level 3 fields for a gateway. They also updated existing functionality.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
CodeTheDream/wiki-med
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:18 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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