Summary
Emily Lau is a Platform Engineer with 8 years of software experience who blends a PharmD background with full-stack engineering to solve complex data and UX problems. She has shipped Java Spring Boot backends and React/Angular frontends, built Snowflake/DBT-driven data pipelines that support millions of events monthly, and reduced SEM job times by 75% through targeted pipeline improvements. Comfortable across the stack, she applies TDD/BDD practices, observability with Grafana/Loki, and CI/CD tooling to keep systems reliable and auditable. A practiced educator and mentor, Emily has created curricula and taught full-stack cohorts, bringing clear communication and pedagogy to cross-team RFCs and technical documentation. Her healthcare training and prior pharmacy work lend a practical, compliance-minded perspective to building production-grade systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion, Computer Software Engineering, Certificate of Completion, Computer Software Engineering at Skill Distillery Java Full-Stack Bootcamp
Doctor of Pharmacy - PharmD, Pharmacy, Doctor of Pharmacy - PharmD, Pharmacy at University of Connecticut