Laura Ohrndorf
Data Platform Engineer
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Ohrndorf is a Data Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience blending full-stack development, data science, and empirical research to build user-friendly, data-driven applications. Based in Dortmund, she has moved from academic research and teaching into industry roles where she designs ETL pipelines, implements anomaly detection and forecasting, and ships interactive frontends for IoT and analytics use cases. She champions visually appealing, navigable interfaces while also working on backend data models and Airflow deployments at scale. Her open-source contributions include internationalizing and expanding the regulations and guidance pages for the widely used World Cube Association website, showing attention to UX and global audiences. With a PhD in Computer Science and Nanodegrees in React and Data Analysis, she combines rigorous research skills with practical engineering to turn complex data into actionable, accessible products.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Informatik (Computer Science), Doktor (Ph.D.), Informatik (Computer Science) at Universität PaderbornNanodegree, React, Nanodegree, React at UdacityDipl-Inform. (diploma), Applied computer science, Dipl-Inform. (diploma), Applied computer science at Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg
German, English
Github Skills (11)
rails10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
wcag9
translation9
internationalization9
html9
css8
javascript7
tournament5
cubing4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thewca/worldcubeassociation.org
Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
All of the code that runs on worldcubeassociation.org
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 15 PRs, 107 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily focused on enhancing the website's regulations section. They implemented new pages for regulations, guidelines, and about pages, and integrated them into the navigation menu. The user also modified the routes and added translations for the French language, indicating a focus on internationalization. Further contributions include updating the regulations history page and adding links to organizer guidelines.
worldcubeassociationrunscubingspeedcubingwca
Laura-O/fmc-europe2019
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 87 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 months
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