Summary
Laura Heddleston is a product-minded full-stack engineer and current Product Manager at Bitpanda with eight years of experience building customer-facing web products and backend systems. She combines front-end expertise in React and Vue with backend skills in Node.js, Java, PHP, and databases (MySQL, MongoDB), and has hands-on DevOps familiarity with AWS and Docker. Her background includes designing lead-generation and Salesforce enrichment pipelines at Drift and architecting payment SDKs and Magento modules whose open-source Node SDK has been adopted by the community. At NerdWallet she bridged product, analytics and research—writing SQL-driven reporting and leading operations for their first mobile product—showing she moves fluidly between code, data and customer needs. Based in Berlin, she brings a pragmatic focus on shipping features that simplify users’ lives, informed by an unusual blend of software engineering, product management and early-career biomedical research.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Post Baccalaureate, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, Post Baccalaureate, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies at UC Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts (BA), International Relations and Spanish, Bachelor of Arts (BA), International Relations and Spanish at UC Davis
Spanish, German