Lauren Hanford
Product Leader at Sonar
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Hanford is a product leader who blends design-driven curiosity with technical fluency to build teams and software that tackle hard, systemic problems like open source risk, education technology, and living-wage work. As VP of Product at Tidelift (now part of Sonar), she scaled Product and UX from inception through acquisition, secured DoD revenue via SBIR, and launched APIs and an open framework (TACOS) to increase visibility and reduce implementation time. She excels at continuous discovery and Lean practices, translating deep domain reading into clear product strategy, measurable growth, and faster customer adoption. A former designer and mentor, she pairs storytelling and ROI-minded GTM support with hands-on hiring and career development for PM and UX teams. Based in Chapel Hill, she’s known for asking teams to “dream big and get weird” while relentlessly clarifying user, business, and market assumptions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BGD, Graphic Design, BGD, Graphic Design at North Carolina State Universitystudied chemistry and criminal justice, Chemistry, studied chemistry and criminal justice, Chemistry at Appalachian State UniversityLetterpress progam, Letterpress progam at London College of Communication
Github Skills (6)
discovery10
rails9
package-manager9
open-source7
service-discovery7
javascript1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
laurenhanford/example-python
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 PRs, 14 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 6 months
laurenhanford/vue
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
🖖 A progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
javascript-frameworkjavascriptframeworkprogressive
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