Kristin Laemmert
Staff Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolKristin Laemmert is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Go, infrastructure, and backend services, currently based in Tampa, FL. She has a strong track record at prominent observability and infrastructure companies—contributing to open-source heavyweights like HashiCorp Terraform and Grafana—where she improved core backend logic, parser/formatter internals, and remote state management. Kristin blends DevOps and backend engineering, shipping pragmatic SDK and platform improvements (e.g., datetime/path functions, HCL parser fixes, context modernization) while keeping tests and docs in sync. Known for steadying complex codebases, she pairs technical depth with collaborative leadership and an emphasis on being a kind and decent human. Her background in theater suggests an uncommon strength in communication and empathy that informs her team-first engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theater, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theater at University of ConnecticutComputer Science, Computer Science at Portland Community College
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Github Skills (30)
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apidoc10
testing10
hcl10
context-api10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
May 2018 - Jul 2021
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 Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 502 reviews, 616 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kristin's contributions focus on improving the terraform backend, implementing datetime functions and encoding functions. They added a new functionality to the remote state management including the tests for it, and updated the existing tests, specifically around the local backend and improved documentation. Their work encompasses improvements across both the application logic and related infrastructure within the repository.
terraformgraphinfrastructure-as-codecloudcloud-management
hashicorp/hcl
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
HCL is the HashiCorp configuration language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kristin's commits focus on enhancing the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) parser and formatter. They made improvements to the `hclwrite` package, specifically addressing heredoc token handling and formatting logic. Furthermore, the user corrected issues related to the `hclsyntax` package, such as returning correct positions for missing attributes and handling edge cases with null and expanding arguments in function calls. The user's work demonstrates a deep understanding of HCL's internal workings.
configuration-languagehashicorphcljson
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