Elaine Arbaugh is a software engineer at Affirm, a startup working to deliver honest financial products to improve lives. She is Affirm’'s first site reliability engineer, and is currently focused on improving metrics pipelining and alerting. She is passionate about building reliable, scalable, and performant systems. Prior to Affirm, Elaine studied computer science at Caltech. She was also previously a SRE intern at Google and a software engineering intern at Akamai.