Laura Lorenz
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Lorenz is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and data products, currently contributing to GKE, Kubernetes, and SIG-Multicluster at Google. She blends production-grade systems work with a long history of teaching—lecturing on Python, SQL, ETL design, and visualization for Georgetown University and running hands-on workshops—so she communicates complex technical ideas clearly. Her background spans backend and DevOps across startups and media companies, shipping features in Python stacks and containerized platforms at Industry Dive, Prefect, and StockUp. Laura is also a creator and community builder: she produced educational video content for Prefect and hosts livestreams and class announcements to grow contributor engagement. Recently diving into Go while still evangelizing Python, she brings practical polyglot experience that helps bridge data engineering, orchestration, and developer education. Based in Seattle, she pairs academic roots in biotechnology and bioinformatics with a pragmatic approach to scalable software and teaching.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biotechnology, Technical/Scientific Communication, B.S., Biotechnology, Technical/Scientific Communication at James Madison UniversityKeio University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (149)
dataflow10
python10
etl10
scheduling10
automation10
infrastructure10
mlops10
orchestration10
mesos10
prefect10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
pipeline10
data-integration10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lauralorenz/enhancements
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Enhancements tracking repo for Kubernetes
Contributions:2 PRs, 179 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 4 months
enhancementskubernetestracking
lauralorenz/kubernetes
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:1 PR, 74 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
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