Laurel Woods
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurel Woods is a software engineer based in the Bay Area who blends a cognitive science background from UCLA with hands-on engineering at Figma and internships at NASA JPL, Amazon, and Gusto. She builds full-stack features and data-driven visualizations, with experience in React, D3, Python, GraphQL, and Rails, and has shipped interactive journalism projects that reached tens of thousands of readers. Passionate about education and social impact, she led BEAM at UCLA to bring STEM curricula to Title I schools and taught math to students across K–12. At Gusto she introduced GraphQL practices to her team, and at Amazon and JPL she delivered internal tools that improved operations and research workflows. Curious and multidisciplinary, Laurel applies human-centered thinking to technical problems, bridging data storytelling, product design, and classroom outreach.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Woodside High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cognitive Science at University of California, Los Angeles
French
Github Skills (15)
journalism10
stack10
data-journalism10
data-visualization10
jekyll10
datasets10
data-science9
redux4
react4
beam4
firebase4
ide3
typescript2
javascript2
frontend2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mattiesansev/NEXT_trucking_project
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 3 days
laurelrwoods/DissolvingExperiment
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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