Lauren Richie
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Durango, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Richie is a software engineer and conservation biologist with 11 years of experience applying engineering at scale to environmental and social challenges. Based in Durango, Colorado, she has built software at Databricks while concurrently consulting for nonprofits on wildlife conservation, grant writing, and policy—bridging product-grade engineering with field-tested conservation strategy. Her background combines a MEM from Yale and a BA in Biology with full-stack training from gSchool, enabling her to translate complex ecological science into pragmatic technical solutions. Notably, she has led regional wolf recovery efforts and published stakeholder-engagement research, bringing rare subject-matter expertise to data-driven environmental projects.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Environmental Management, Master of Environmental Management at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental StudiesAnalyzing and Transforming Conflict (week-long intensive course), Analyzing and Transforming Conflict (week-long intensive course) at Human‐Wildlife Conflict CollaborationB.A., Biology; minor in Environmental Studies, B.A., Biology; minor in Environmental Studies at Swarthmore CollegeFull-stack web development, Full-stack web development at gSchool (Galvanize)
conversational spanish, beginning bahasa indonesiaProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
laurenjrichie/testrepo
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:142 pushes, 59 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
laurenjrichie/gCamp
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:94 commits, 6 pushes in 4 months
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