Lara McConnaughey
Summary
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SeniorLara Mcconnaughey is a machine learning software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on speech and large language model projects at Google and Google DeepMind from her base in Berkeley. She combines deep academic training from UC Berkeley (CS and Linguistics, MS in CS) with practical voice and NLP expertise developed through roles at Amazon Alexa, SRI, and research positions focused on speech and book segmentation. Lara is also committed to CS education and equity—she has taught introductory CS courses at UC Berkeley and as a Google in Residence lecturer at Hampton University, running large course staffs and shaping curricula. Her background in linguistics gives her a nuanced perspective on speech modeling and data-driven language analysis that informs her ML work. She has a track record of moving research into production settings and mentoring students while balancing high-impact engineering at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
hubot9
discord-js8
educational-technology7
discord7
discord-bot7
bank7
ruby5
ruby-on-rails5
spring-boot4
python4
spring3
java3
spring-mvc3
snap1
canvas-lms1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Laralinmcc/book-segmenter
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:219 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
Laralinmcc/bjc-r
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
The Beauty and Joy of Computing public resource repository.
Contributions:76 pushes in 2 years 9 months
joycomputing
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