Lauren Schaefer
Senior Lead, Evaluate & Learn Team
Lower Oxford Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Schaefer is a seasoned developer relations and technical content leader with 8+ years of experience shaping developer education and engagement at companies like MongoDB and Grammarly. She combines a former full-time engineering background with global team leadership, having grown workshop programs, launched unified tutorial strategies, and directly impacted developer engagement and Net ARR. Known for transforming complex APIs into accessible code samples, videos, and talks, she’s a prolific international speaker and content creator who optimizes reach through SEO-informed writing and repurposed multimedia. Lauren also blends hands-on engineering credibility—she did a secondment on the MongoDB Node.js driver team to improve contributor onboarding—with strong operational rigor, building playbooks and hiring rubrics to scale consistent, high-quality DevRel. Based in Pennsylvania, she’s respected for driving measurable outcomes while mentoring managers and preserving team morale during restructuring.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (3)
coders10
python8
integrations7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sugarcrm-developers/school
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Professor M's School for Gifted Coders
Contributions:40 releases, 122 commits, 37 PRs in 11 months
pythonprofessorcoders
lschaefer-sugarcrm/wordpresstojive
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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