Lauren Zugai
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLauren Zugai is a full-stack web engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in modern JavaScript (ES6/7, TypeScript), React UIs, and Node.js back-ends, currently based in Austin. She’s shipped production features at Mozilla, contributing to large, well-known projects like the Firefox Accounts monorepo and the Experimenter app—working across payment flows, account security, and React component libraries. Self-taught early on through creative web work and later formalized with a General Assembly bootcamp, she blends a designer’s eye for “efficient yet pretty” code with pragmatic automation and testing. Driven by continuous learning and problem-solving, she thrives on breaking down complex projects and shipping clean, maintainable solutions. Outside work she’s a metalhead and fitness enthusiast, a detail that hints at her disciplined, passionate approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
General Assembly
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/fxa
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Monorepo for Mozilla Accounts (formerly Firefox Accounts)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2171 reviews, 479 commits, 972 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lauren contributed to the Mozilla Accounts (fxa) monorepo by implementing and refactoring various back-end features. Their work included fixing style issues, adding new delete account views, enhancing payment features such as those related to subscriptions and billing, and creating a page for email verification. The contributions demonstrate the user's focus on improving the functionality and user experience of account management, payments, and security-related aspects of the system. The user also showed experience with testing and the application of design changes across several files.
firefoxmonorepoaccounts
mozilla/experimenter
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
A web application for managing user experiments for Mozilla Firefox.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:629 reviews, 87 commits, 157 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the Mozilla Experimenter project, specifically focusing on building a new "nimbus-ui" component using React and TypeScript. Their contributions include initializing the UI, adding test cases, incorporating linting and workspace configurations, and setting up the project's README. The user also added Storybook stories, and implemented feature/design changes to the UI.
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