Summary
Lauren Washington is a technology and data leader with two decades of experience building financial services data platforms and leading cross-functional teams. She has repeatedly scaled and modernized data infrastructure for asset managers and exchanges, including migrating ETL workloads to Azure to cut costs and architecting a 40-terabyte research platform integrating ESG and vendor data. As a director-level operator, she combines hands-on SQL/Python expertise with vendor contract management and a strategic product mindset to align data engineering with investment outcomes. Her background spans product, support, and analytics roles at ICE, GMO, and Google, giving her a rare end-to-end view of security master, market data, and payments risk. Known for hiring and growing diverse technical talent, she also builds pragmatic tooling—open-sourced APIs and UI components—to make complex datasets accessible to researchers and quants. Based in Boston, she mixes rigorous operational discipline with a collaborative, transparent leadership style that drives measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Information Systems, B.S. Computer Information Systems at Bentley University