Lauren Zhang
Software Engineer at Persona
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLauren Zhang is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and web products across media and consumer tech, currently contributing to identity infrastructure at Persona. Her career progressed from internships and academic TA work at Columbia to multi-role growth at BuzzFeed and backend engineering at Hinge, reflecting both depth in production services and adaptability across fast-paced teams. She brings practical expertise in shipping scalable, user-facing features and improving platform reliability at scale. Based in New York, Lauren pairs a Barnard/Columbia CS background with hands-on experience mentoring and teaching, which informs her collaborative approach to engineering. A detail that often goes unnoticed: she has repeatedly advanced within the same organization (BuzzFeed) through roles that increased scope, showing consistent delivery and ownership over time.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Harrisburg AcademyHigh School, High School at Hershey High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Barnard College
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Github Skills (8)
octopus10
authentication10
single-sign-on10
oauth10
aes10
security10
go9
api1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
laurenzhang/laurenzhang.github.io
Feb 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 2 months
ComputationalBiology-CS-CU/Matrix-Multiplication
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:163 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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