Laren Crawford
Senior Programmer Writer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Laren Crawford is a Senior Programmer Writer at AWS with six years of focused experience designing, developing, and documenting web and desktop applications. She blends hands-on back-end development—contributing examples for major AWS services like S3, IAM, Redshift, CloudTrail, and the Go SDK—with a long history of creating clear developer documentation and tooling. Her background spans product-focused engineering roles at Microsoft and startups, full‑stack lab systems for healthcare, and founding a creative webcomic business where she built custom WordPress themes and produced all content. Comfortable across languages and paradigms (C#, Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Go), Laren pairs test-driven engineering with a storyteller’s habit for clarity, which helps translate complex APIs into practical examples. Based in Seattle, she brings an unusual mix of technical depth and creative publishing experience that improves both developer productivity and user-facing content.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics and English, BA, Mathematics and English at Pacific Lutheran University
Github Skills (4)
amazon-s310
amazon-redshift10
amazon-sqs9
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK Developer Guides, and more. For more information, see the Readme.md file below.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1511 reviews, 697 commits, 809 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Laren appears to be primarily focused on back-end development, as evidenced by contributions to the ruby code example for CloudTrail and the Java and Kotlin examples of IAM, Redshift, and S3 operations. The user implemented features, fixed bugs, and contributed to the design and implementation of the services examples within the project. The user also showed experience with the Go SDK, developing unit tests and scenarios.
dotnetcpppythonjavascriptphp
Laren-AWS/aws-doc-sdk-examples
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Code examples used in the official AWS SDK documentation.
Contributions:197 commits, 1557 pushes, 787 branches in 7 months
sdk-documentationsdkaws-sdkaws
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