Lauren Sperber
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
United States
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Top SchoolLauren Sperber is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years building product-focused web platforms and developer-facing APIs at companies including Etsy, Mailchimp, and Nava. She’s led technical rewrites and product initiatives—most notably Shop Manager and a Shop Setup rewrite at Etsy that boosted shop completion by 14%—combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership across frontend, backend, and API-first architectures. Her background spans product management and engineering, giving her a rare fluency in translating user research and business goals into shipped software. Based in the United States, she favors pragmatic, data-informed improvements and has presented on engineering practices publicly. A Recurse Center attendee with an MA in English, she brings strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills to large-scale product challenges.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Psychology English and History, International Baccalaureate Diploma Psychology English and History at St. Petersburg Senior High SchoolB.A. English Literature and Literary History, B.A. English Literature and Literary History at Georgetown UniversityM.A. English and American Literature, M.A. English and American Literature at New York UniversityNever Graduate Computer Science, Never Graduate Computer Science at Recurse Center
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (57)
twitter10
twitter-bootstrap10
jquery10
bootstrap10
protocol-buffers10
serialization10
rpc10
protobuf10
marshalling9
color-picker9
data-interchange9
interchange9
protoc9
nodejs8
csharp7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lauren/we-still-feel-fine
Aug 2013 - May 2019
Contributions:88 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
lauren/pick-a-color
Nov 2012 - May 2016
an easy-to-use jQuery color picker for Twitter Bootstrap
Contributions:270 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 6 months
jquerytwittercolor-pickerpickerbootstrap
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