Summary
Laura Shea is a seasoned infrastructure and DevOps leader with over 11 years of experience driving cloud migrations, platform product management, and enterprise reliability at scale. She has led large, cross-functional organizations and multimillion-dollar budgets—most recently shaping delivery experience and DevOps tooling at Fannie Mae and now spearheading infrastructure and operations at Healthfirst. Laura blends systems-level thinking with hands-on cloud engineering, having architected multi-cloud strategies, chargeback models, IaC practices and vendor negotiations across Marriott’s global estate. She is skilled at embedding SAFe and Agile Release Trains to improve predictability and delivery cadence and has a track record of operationalizing observability, SRE, and test engineering capabilities. A pragmatic communicator who bridges technical and business stakeholders, she also brings an unusual background running a creative small business featured on HGTV, which informs her customer-focused product mindset.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Admin. / Information Technology, BS, Business Admin. / Information Technology at Shepherd University
MBA, Information Systems Concentration, MBA, Information Systems Concentration at Mount Saint Mary's University