Laura Tacho
Senior Principal Technologist, Developer Experience at Laura Tacho Consulting
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Tacho is a senior technology leader with 12 years’ experience turning developer experience into measurable business impact, now serving as Senior Principal Technologist for Developer Experience at AWS. She has led engineering and product teams as CTO of DX—an evidence-backed developer intelligence platform sold to Atlassian—and as VP/Director roles at companies including Aula, Codeship, and CloudBees. Laura blends hands-on engineering (notably front-end contributions to Docker-era tooling like Panamax’s UI) with executive advising and coaching for leaders at GitHub, Pfizer and others, and runs a flagship metrics course taken by 1,000+ leaders. Known for translating research into AI-driven platforms and pragmatic operating models, she advises on metrics, change management and organisational readiness for AI-assisted engineering. Based in Austria, she pairs a non-traditional background in history and communications with graduate computer science coursework to bridge strategy, product and developer-centric engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA with Honors, History, Communications (Radio/TV/Film), BA with Honors, History, Communications (Radio/TV/Film) at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Science - MS Coursework, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Coursework, Computer Science at DePaul UniversityTeaching Certificate, Type 22 and 23, Teaching Certificate, Type 22 and 23 at Dominican University
German
Github Skills (8)
html10
javascript10
jquery10
ui-design9
css9
handlebars8
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CenturyLinkLabs/panamax-ui
Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
The Web GUI for Panamax
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the frontend of the Panamax-ui project, focusing on UI improvements and feature additions. They implemented a new "Add Service" modal with search functionality, including image tag selection and image layers integration. Further work included adding context-sensitive help, modifying the display of service statuses, and modifying the addition of exposed ports to the service details view. These commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the user experience.
guiweb-gui
codeship/libcompose
Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 PRs, 30 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 5 months
golangcodeshipgo-librarydockercompose
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