Laura Funderburk
Developer Relations And Community Lead
Canada
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Top SchoolLaura Funderburk is a Developer Relations and Community Lead with 10 years of experience bridging data science, engineering, and developer advocacy across open source and AI ecosystems. With a BSc in Mathematics and deep hands-on expertise in Python, SQL/NoSQL, Ray and Apache Spark, she designs robust data pipelines and productionizes ML and LLM-based applications with an emphasis on MLOps and RAG patterns. Laura has a track record of creating high-impact technical content, bilingual mentorship programs, and rapid-turnaround AI prototypes that drive community adoption and startup collaboration. Former roles at Bytewax, Ploomber and AI Makerspace showcase her ability to translate complex engineering into approachable resources and developer experiences. She combines statistical rigor and feature-engineering chops with practical deployment experience—often leveraging pipeline frameworks like Ploomber—to move models from experiment to production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The National Polytechnic Institute of MexicoBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Simon Fraser University
Spanish, English, German
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Github Skills (160)
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tsql10
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data-processing10
rust10
jupyter10
data-science10
jupyter-notebook10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Building-Natural-Language-and-LLM-Pipelines
Sep 2023 - Dec 2025
Building RAG and Agentic Applications with Haystack 2.0, RAGAS and LangGraph 1.0 published by Packt
Contributions:6 reviews, 17 PRs, 478 pushes in 2 years 3 months
agenticindexing-queryingllmpythonrag
lfunderburk/machine-learning-capstone
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Repository for capstone project
Contributions:92 commits, 1 PR, 93 pushes in 4 months
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