Laura Thorson
Senior Event Manager, Corporate Events
Redondo Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Thorson is a seasoned events and program manager with 11 years of experience building high-impact, scalable event strategies for developer-facing organizations, now leading corporate events at GitHub. She combines product-minded rigor and cross-functional influence—having moved from product and partner engineering roles into global event strategy—to negotiate sponsorships, optimize ROI, and run Tier 1 tradeshows like Black Hat and AWS re:Invent. Laura launched GitHub’s Speaker Bureau and restructured global meetup programs, driving rapid membership growth and measurable ROI while navigating complex procurement and legal processes. Comfortable in high-visibility, ambiguous situations, she excels at engaging senior leaders to unlock strategic opportunities and ship results. An unexpected strength: her background includes hands-on technical work and developer bootcamp experience that lets her translate engineering needs into compelling event and speaker programs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature General at University of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (55)
web-animations10
audiocontext10
github-issues10
github10
macos6
sorting6
ruby-on-rails6
merge6
mergesort6
binary-search-tree6
linux6
ruby6
algorithm6
rubygems6
draw5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shmeadyy/shmeadyy.github.io
May 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
shmeadyy/furry-meme
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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