Laura Weatherhead
DevRel Advocate
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaura Weatherhead is a seasoned full-stack .NET developer and DevRel Advocate with over a decade of experience building bespoke web solutions across agencies and product teams, specialising in Umbraco CMS in both headless and loosely coupled architectures. She blends server-side expertise with Entity Framework and .NET Core/Standard with modern front-end work in React, Angular and Vue, and has contributed front-end improvements and documentation to the flagship Umbraco CMS open-source project. As founder of Spun Ltd she applies AI and HCI research to practical learning products—ranging from a programming game to child-focused health apps—bringing an experimental, research-led approach to product design. Based in Canterbury, Laura pairs strong engineering chops with teaching-oriented projects and an MS in Applied Neuroscience, a combination that informs her focus on usable, learner-friendly interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, BSc Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science - MS Applied Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS Applied Neuroscience at King's College London
Spanish, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
umbraco10
cms10
javascript10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
html9
css7
gulp6
sass6
azure-pipelines6
azure6
azure-devops6
asp-net4
asp-net-core4
csharp3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the front-end components of the Umbraco CMS, making updates to the UI client. Their work involved modifying directives, updating button parameters, and fixing language discrepancies in installer steps. They also focused on improving the developer documentation and the usage guidance of the Umbraco CMS, reflecting their contribution to improving the usability of the system.
cmscontent-management-systemheadless-cmsaspumbraco
lssweatherhead/Umbraco-CMS
Jun 2019 - Sep 2023
The simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS used by more than 400.000 websites
Contributions:6 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 4 months
cmsaspasp-net000asp-net-core
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