Summary
Laura Neff is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with eight years of experience building data-driven systems, leading cross-functional teams, and shipping large-scale claims and membership data pipelines at Aetna/CVS Health. She combines deep expertise in C#, Java, Node.js, MarkLogic, MongoDB, Google Cloud, and ML frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow) to design end-to-end ingestion, transformation, and API solutions that optimize storage and reduce technical debt. A certified SAFe agilist and MarkLogic/C# certificant, she chairs internal AI and automation councils and recently led an AI effort to simplify developer workflows with Python. Beyond corporate projects she builds and maintains web properties for nonprofits and mentors students in math and CS, reflecting a commitment to demystifying technology and expanding STEM access. Notably, she ranked in the 98th percentile on a timed global machine learning literacy exam, underscoring both speed and depth in ML understanding.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Emory University
Full Stack Development Certification, Full Stack Development Certification at Columbia Engineering
Kinnelon High School
french (11 years), Spanish, English