Laura Chan
Technical Lead at Octopus Money
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Chan is a Technical Lead based in London with eight years’ experience specialising in front-end engineering and design systems, currently leading engineering at Octopus Money. She has driven component-driven UX work across multiple fintech and product teams, including building the Flux Design System at GoCardless and stewarding Oyster’s design system as a Senior Frontend Engineer. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, she repeatedly turns design language into robust, accessible component libraries and CSS architecture. Her background combines rigorous humanities training (Classics and a Philosophy MA) with formal software development education from Makers, giving her a rare mix of user-centered thinking and pragmatic engineering.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at MakersMaster’s Degree Philosophy, Master’s Degree Philosophy at King's College LondonUniversity College London
Github Skills (99)
testing10
ruby10
gatsby10
angular10
typescript10
rails10
vue10
fastest10
open-source10
webpack10
graphql10
react10
javascript9
golang9
popover9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lwkchan/make-a-type
May 2020 - May 2022
VSCode extension to transform JS object into TS typed interface
Contributions:3 reviews, 26 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 1 month
transformvscodejavascriptvscode-extensiontyped
lwkchan/dot_files
Nov 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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