Laura Pak is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of professional experience and a B.S. in Computer Science from UT Dallas. Currently at Google, she focuses on backend systems and has contributed shape-management improvements to the flagship TensorFlow repository, demonstrating deep familiarity with tensor manipulation and robust kernel code. A self-motivated learner with interests in machine learning and app development, she pairs research-grounded NLP experience and practical cloud-hosted application work. Past internships include building a Java Spring Boot dashboard at J.P. Morgan that streamlined reporting and saved management time, showing an eye for measurable impact. She also has hands-on tutoring and research experience that reflect strong communication and data-cleaning rigor. Colleagues can expect a diligent engineer who bridges production backend reliability with ML-focused code contributions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 217 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily focused on updating shape-related functions within the TensorFlow codebase. Their work involved replacing calls to `AddDim` with `AddDimWithStatus` across multiple files, including those related to kernel operations (e.g., `batchtospace_op.cc`, `set_kernels.cc`). These changes indicate a shift towards more robust shape management within the framework, specifically related to functions using `OpKernelContext`. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate a strong understanding of tensor shape manipulation.
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 2 days
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