Summary
Lara Van Vuuren is a Product Manager with 10 years of engineering and SaaS experience, currently shaping product strategy and execution at Quickparts after helping integrate Link3D into Materialise’s CO-AM platform. She blends a technical foundation in mechanical and mechatronic systems—honed through a Masters from UC Berkeley, a UVA mechanical engineering degree, and years of NASA internships—with hands-on product execution from backlog management to GTM launches. Lara has a track record of delivering complex B2B integrations (SAP, Salesforce), launching enterprise customers generating significant revenue, and leading UX overhauls that improve critical user flows. Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, she bridges customers, engineering, and sales with clear technical requirements and pragmatic roadmaps. An unusual strength is her deep domain knowledge of additive manufacturing and robotics, which informs her ability to translate advanced engineering constraints into viable SaaS products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Masters of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at University of Virginia