Lauren Scott
Senior Software Engineer at Home Chef
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Scott is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with 12 years of experience building resilient web systems and mentoring the next generation of developers. Currently at Home Chef, she blends deep backend expertise—especially Ruby/Rails and production infrastructure—with a curriculum-building mindset honed as Braintree’s Director of Apprenticeship. A community organizer who re-established RailsBridge Chicago, Lauren designs large-scale workshops and diversity-focused programs that turn instruction into sustained impact. She came to engineering from a background in creative writing and poetry, which informs her emphasis on disciplined, empathetic collaboration and elegant, testable code. Known for digging into algorithms and practical ops work (from Cassandra deployments to deployment automation), she prefers the best tool for the problem over familiar patterns and leaves codebases cleaner for those who follow.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Creative Writing, Bachelor's degree, Creative Writing at Knox CollegeWeb Development, Web Development at Dev BootcampHigh School degree, Creative Writing, High School degree, Creative Writing at Interlochen Arts Academy
Github Skills (30)
nodejs7
opal7
cassandra-database7
js6
social-media6
browser6
ruby6
javascript6
migration5
rails5
cassandra4
database-schema4
python4
v8-javascript-engine4
compiler4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
devdame/dnd-character-generator
May 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
devdame/DBC-final-project
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:142 commits in 7 days
pythoncollegessocial-mediacollege-students
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