Lauren Barker
Software Engineering Manager at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Barker is a Software Engineering Manager in New York with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, well-designed software. She progressed through individual contributor roles at Cockroach Labs—from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer—and now manages engineering efforts focused on scalable systems and product impact. A strong communicator and organizer, she has a track record of unifying team direction and streamlining processes to accelerate delivery. Lauren’s background includes back-end and DevOps work on the Open Science Framework and re-architecting large data pipelines at the Center for Open Science, showing comfort with both web frameworks and infrastructure. Colleagues rely on her blend of hands-on coding, systems thinking, and practical leadership to turn complex requirements into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Virginia
French
Github Skills (8)
python10
django10
testing10
migration9
javascript6
css5
version-control4
git4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
May 2015 - May 2018
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:449 commits, 76 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily worked on back-end improvements, including bug fixes and features related to the OSF. Their contributions involved adding and modifying code within the Django framework, as well as implementing migrations and tests to maintain the project's integrity. The user also made changes to the project's dependencies and build process, suggesting involvement in DevOps and infrastructure aspects of the repository. The user worked on improving various modules like logging and also refactored elements for a more streamlined approach.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
laurenbarker/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years 9 months
dotfilesansible-rolesansible
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