Laila Los
Developer Advocate
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLaila Los is a Developer Advocate and full-stack engineer with 7 years of experience building and shipping user-focused web platforms from Rotterdam. She has led a small front-end team as Product Owner for the Galaxy Project—a data-intensive scientific platform with 15k+ monthly users—where she shipped workflow editor features, refactored UI to TypeScript, and presented workshops internationally. Her open-source contributions to Galaxy emphasize thoughtful UX, component design, and interactive features like an integrated poster and improved theming. Previously she co-founded and built Trans*DB, creating a custom data-access language and self-hosted geolocation services to make support discoverable for marginalized communities. Laila combines hands-on implementation, teaching experience, and public speaking to translate complex scientific and social problems into accessible, test-driven products.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Game Design, Certificate Game Design at Games Academy
English, German
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
vue10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
vue-jsx10
ux-design9
sc9
css9
scs9
react9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 163 commits, 183 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Laila primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Galaxy project, focusing on UI components and related logic. Their work included implementing and refactoring components within the workflow editor, such as features for managing and displaying comments and adding options for editing. They also refactored code to use TypeScript for enhanced type safety and modularity.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
galaxyproject/galaxy-hub
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Galaxy Community Hub
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 68 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Laila primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Galaxy Community Hub, focusing on the user interface and user experience. Their work included adding and modifying components such as partners, adding a project page, and integrating an interactive poster. The user also updated existing components with improvements to their style, layout, and overall functionality. Furthermore, the user adjusted the theme of the site to better suit the project.
usegalaxygalaxy
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