Lael Birch
Senior Software Engineer at Careforth
Wendell, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLael Birch is a senior full-stack engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient web applications using React on the frontend and Python/Django and Go on the backend. She has led small cross-functional teams as a technical lead, driving architecture decisions, reusable component libraries, multitenancy, and improved testing and documentation to accelerate development across multiple ventures. Known for mentoring junior engineers and running sprint planning and retros, she combines strong technical judgment with excellent communication honed outside tech in roles from production management to equine programs. Based in Wendell, MA, Lael blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for process improvement and developer enablement—plus an unexpected creative side as a singer and equestrian that informs her collaborative leadership style.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Full-stack web development, Certificate Full-stack web development at General AssemblySpanish Linguistics, Spanish Linguistics at UDLABA Music, BA Music at Hollins University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (140)
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patternfly10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ga-wdi-boston/ember-routing-diagnostic
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:38 PRs, 118 comments, 1 issue in 7 days
ga-wdi-boston/ember-diagnostic
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:28 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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