Laura Pilkington is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of experience and a strong full‑stack background, currently serving as Lead Software Engineer, Backend at Takt. She’s shipped Vue/Nuxt frontends and built scalable backend systems, owning everything from MongoDB schema design and ETL pipelines to AWS-deployed full‑stack apps and Lambda-based scrapers. Comfortable working solo or leading teams, she has modernized legacy scraping infrastructure into serverless, production-ready workflows and automated data pipelines to unlock historical data value. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, she blends hands‑on implementation with system-level thinking, favoring practical, maintainable solutions over complexity.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Northern Virginia Community College
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