Lara Mcconnaughey
Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Google DeepMind
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolLara 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
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyCal Poly PomonaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at International Polytechnic High School
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (20)
bank8
discord-bot8
hubot8
discord7
discord-js7
ruby-on-rails6
educational-technology6
ruby5
spring-mvc4
spring-boot4
python4
spring3
java3
canvas1
lms1
Programming languages (3)
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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