Laura Kishimoto
Software Engineering Manager at Raspberry Pi Foundation
North East Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaura Kishimoto is a people-focused Software Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading and scaling front-end and product engineering teams across agencies and mission-driven organisations. She’s built and coached high-impact teams at Prolific and Inviqa and now leads the Educators product engineering team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, prioritising autonomy, strategic alignment, and clear communication to maximise impact. Known for empathetic, transparent leadership, she combines hands-on technical judgement with process optimisation and a track record of hiring, career frameworks, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. Laura also contributes to the developer community through conference and meetup organisation, championing accessibility and inclusive selection processes. An advocate for continuous improvement, she pairs calm, confident communication with measurable team engagement and delivery outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
OAC physics calculus chemistry science in society, OAC physics calculus chemistry science in society at Ontario Science Centre Science SchoolBMus Honours Vocal Music and Music Theory, BMus Honours Vocal Music and Music Theory at Western UniversityVocal music, Vocal music at Cardinal Carter Academy for the ArtsMA in Music Vocal Studies, MA in Music Vocal Studies at University of York
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Github Skills (63)
ecommerce10
magento10
doc10
php10
adobe10
markdown9
docsify9
react-carousel9
vue9
slick9
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documentation8
bookmarklet8
cloudinary8
vuepress8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
holography/holograph
May 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 52 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year
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chicgeek/magento2
Aug 2015 - Oct 2020
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Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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