Lauryn Menard
Software Engineer at Kandra Labs, Inc. (creators of Zulip)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolLauryn Menard is a software engineer based in Barcelona with six years of professional experience blending front-end development and user-focused product work. She contributed notable front-end features to the popular open-source Zulip chat platform, implementing modern direct-message narrows and related UI behavior. Previously an educator and administrator, Lauryn brings strong communication, curriculum design, and cross-cultural teaching experience from roles in higher education and arts organizations. Her background in English/Creative Writing and a CELTA certification inform a clear, user-centered approach to documentation and collaboration. Comfortable working in open-source and distributed teams, she transitioned from teaching to engineering via a successful Outreachy internship. Lauryn’s profile reflects a practical hybrid of pedagogy and engineering that helps translate complex technical features into accessible user experiences.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
CELTA, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Pass B, CELTA, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Pass B at Lenguas Vivas, ValenciaBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English/Creative Writing, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English/Creative Writing at Emory University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
channel10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:969 reviews, 325 commits, 623 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Lauryn's contributions focused on implementing frontend support for direct message features within the Zulip web application. They added functionality for `dm:` narrow and `/dm/...` URLs, deprecated the `pm-with` operator, and updated the web app's behavior to default to the new direct message narrows. These changes included the modification of several JavaScript test files related to search suggestions. The user's work directly involved the creation of new channel features.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
laurynmm/zulip
Oct 2021 - Apr 2025
Zulip server and web app—powerful open source team chat
Contributions:1692 pushes, 1276 branches in 3 years 6 months
reactsocket-iozulipchatwebsocket
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