Laura Olarte
Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft
Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Olarte is a Senior Technical Specialist with 13 years of experience building cloud-native and on-premise software and data platforms, currently at Microsoft. Trained at Colombia’s top universities with an MSc in Computer Engineering, she blends machine learning and deep learning expertise with pragmatic engineering—designing classification and recommendation systems and leading end-to-end back- and front-end solutions. Her background spans data architecture, analytics, and automation, and she has repeatedly led successful projects with strong user feedback. Passionate about operational automation, she focuses teams on solving higher‑value problems while keeping systems reproducible and scalable. Outside work she pursues physics, AI and sustainable energy topics that inform her long-term vision for technology’s role in improving quality of life.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer Computation, Computer Engineer Computation at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaUniversidad de los Andes
English
Github Skills (11)
viewer10
map-viewer10
fact9
biogeography8
biodiversity8
catalog6
web-application5
bus4
mongoose3
mongodb2
generative-ai2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SIB-Colombia/catalog-biodiversity-frontend
May 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:116 commits, 7 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
factbiodiversityv1-2catalogsheets
SIB-Colombia/dataportal-explorer
Apr 2013 - Nov 2016
Contributions:208 commits, 6 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 years 7 months
dataportalsibviewermapmap-viewer
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