Luces Huayhuaca is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with nine years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and developer tooling. She has driven key contributions to high-profile open-source projects like HashiCorp Terraform and New Relic’s Node agent—improving sensitive-data handling, Terraform Cloud integrations, and serverless distributed tracing. Equally comfortable in production code and operational workflows, she pairs backend engineering with DevOps sensibilities to ship reliable infrastructure features. A former language interpreter and screenwriter, she brings uncommon cross-disciplinary communication skills and a passion for mentoring junior engineers. Currently at Zapier, she continues to blend product-focused engineering with open-source collaboration to solve practical problems at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Communication, Bachelor in Communication at Universidad de Lima
Interpreting Program, Interpreting Program at Western Oregon University
Official HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise provider, maintained by HashiCorp. Provision HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise - with Terraform!
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:34 reviews, 15 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Luces contributed to the Terraform provider, specifically addressing sensitive data handling within the TFE resource. They implemented features to force resource recreation when sensitive parameters change and removed sensitive data from debug logging. Furthermore, they revised testing utilities to improve output validation and addressed a fetch outputs step failure by modifying the workflow runner and related configurations. These changes indicate a focus on both the core logic and the operational aspects of the provider.
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:32 reviews, 48 commits, 32 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Luces's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Terraform Cloud integration within the Terraform project. They modified backend configurations, incorporated run tasks, and improved the handling of workspace selections. Their work involved modifying code related to cloud backends, policy checks, and cost estimation, indicating a focus on infrastructure as code and cloud-native operations. The user also addressed changes related to the use of Terraform Cloud's APIs and the handling of different execution modes.
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