Lauren Scott
Frontend Software Engineer at Google
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Scott is a Frontend Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building responsive, event-driven web applications and embedded web interfaces. She combines deep full-stack knowledge—modern JavaScript, Node/npm, Backbone and Angular, Browserify/Grunt/Gulp—with hands-on Linux, PHP, RESTful services, and SQL optimization. At IBM she drove JavaScript performance tuning that yielded up to 40x improvements and supported large enterprise deployments; she’s been a front-end engineer at Google since 2015. Her open-source contributions include timezone and UX fixes for the high-profile AO3 archive project, showing attention to user-facing detail across distributed systems. A voracious self-learner with a background in English literature, she brings strong communication and documentation skills to collaborative teams and client engagements. Software development is more than her job—she treats it as a craft, continually pushing into newer tooling and performance frontiers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English and American Literatures, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English and American Literatures at Middlebury College
Russian
Github Skills (6)
datetime10
rails10
datetimes10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
otwcode/otwarchive
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) - Archive Of Our Own (AO3) Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily focused on modifying the application's date and time display functionality, particularly within the context of draft work deletion notifications. They addressed lint warnings and fixed issues related to timezone handling across various parts of the application, including helpers, views, and controllers. The contributions involved changes in the `application_helper.rb`, `works_controller.rb`, and `chapters_controller.rb` files, updating how dates and times are presented to users. They also fixed whitespace and merged branches.
ao3archive
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