Lauren Boland
Senior Software Engineer at FIREproofme.com
Annandale, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolLauren Boland is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building Python/Django systems, Linux infrastructure, and enterprise integrations. Currently at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, she previously led backend development and complex third-party integrations at Motley Fool Wealth Management, where she automated AUM billing and built PII-scrubbing workflows. A systems engineer by training (MS, GWU) with early roots in WebLogic and performance tooling at Lockheed Martin, she also founded and actively develops retirement-planning projects (FIREproofme.com and cfiresim.com) that reflect a deep personal interest in personal finance and community-driven tooling. Known for mentoring and running internal training programs, she combines testing and systems-thinking with product-minded engineering to ship reliable, user-focused services.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Sciences and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State UniversityMasters of Science Systems Engineering, Masters of Science Systems Engineering at The George Washington University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
calculator10
docker-desktop9
javascript8
django-models6
recharts6
django-rest-framework6
angularjs6
css6
python6
celery-task6
django6
json6
wrapper5
api5
zendesk-api5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
boknows/cFIREsim-open
Dec 2014 - Dec 2020
An attempt to re-write the popular retirement calculator (cFIREsim.com) in mainly javascript, and begin the journey toward open-source.
Contributions:75 commits, 16 PRs, 80 pushes in 6 years 1 month
beginjavascriptcalculatorjourneyretirement
boknows/hex-map-game
Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:68 commits in 5 months
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