Lauren Long
Co-Founder, CTO at Ampersand
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Long is a hands-on engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building developer-facing products and startups from San Francisco. As Co-Founder and CTO of Ampersand she combines deep backend expertise—honed as a technical lead on Firebase and a frequent contributor to high-profile repos like firebase-tools, firebase-functions, and firebase/extensions—with product instincts from early-stage roles at Shortwave and Boxit. She’s launched platform features used by millions, led the creation of Firebase Extensions, and spoken about developer tooling globally, yet still prefers getting lost in code. Her background spans product, hardware, and university governance, giving her a rare blend of startup grit, cross-disciplinary curiosity, and operational leadership.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Recurse CenterBachelor of Computing, Bachelor of Computing at Queen's UniversityEntrepreneurship (The Next 36), Entrepreneurship (The Next 36) at University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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firebase-realtime-database
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google-cloud-functions
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Github Skills (36)
google-cloud-platform10
javascript10
back-end-development10
google-admin-sdk10
azure-functions10
google-cloud-functions10
firebase-cloud-functions10
gcp10
firebase-admin10
ibm-cloud-functions10
nodejs10
firebase-functions10
firebase10
mailchimp-api-v39
apidoc9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-functions
Sep 2016 - Aug 2020
Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 184 PRs, 168 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily contributed to the `firebase/firebase-functions` repository by wrapping legacy events into new EventFlow events, refactoring code to align with new event formats, and addressing related code modifications. They also worked on preventing double-wrapping of PubSub messages, and corrected and updated data snapshot behavior. The user also contributed to a variety of builders within Firebase functions, with a focus on handling database events.
firebase-sdkfirestorefirebase-functionsfirebasecloud-functions
firebase/extensions
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Source code for official Firebase extensions
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 71 commits, 165 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily contributes to the `firebase/extensions` repository by developing Firebase Cloud Functions. Their work includes implementing and modifying backend logic for extensions like Mailchimp and User Wipeout. Key contributions involve integrating with external services like Mailchimp, creating user data management features, and updating existing extensions. Additionally, they've addressed code quality by adding Apache headers and fixing issues within the project's code.
firebaseextensionsfirebase-extensionsfirestore
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