Summary
Lanae Kawa is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends a strong technical foundation—summa cum laude BS in Mathematics and Computer Science—with a background in non-profit healthcare, giving her a practical, ethics-driven perspective on engineering. She has driven architecture and engineering excellence at Cigna across roles from intern to Software Architecture Advisor, leading initiatives like GitRDoneBot and contributing to cross-organizational SRE and DevOps adoption. Comfortable across the stack, Lanae has built Elixir/Phoenix apps on OpenShift/Kubernetes, serverless TypeScript on AWS, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and microservice ecosystems using SpringBoot, Zuul, and CockroachDB. A lifelong gamer and storyteller, she brings creative problem solving and narrative-driven communication to technical work, publishes and presents regularly (including a poster at Grace Hopper), and actively advocates knowledge sharing within the tech community.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, GPA: 3.92, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, GPA: 3.92 at Eastern Connecticut State University
Associate's Degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Associate's Degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Three Rivers Community College
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