Miriam Lauter
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
United States
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Top SchoolMiriam Lauter is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient payments and infrastructure systems, currently at Etsy after a recent staff role at ActBlue Technical Services. She has led platform migrations to Google Cloud and shipped critical payments features like guest checkout and third-party processor integrations, blending backend rigor with infrastructure-focused thinking. An active contributor to open-source—improving the beloved bpython interactive interpreter by refining tracebacks and error handling—she brings attention to developer experience as well as production reliability. Her background in linguistics and cognitive neuroscience research informs a data-driven, user-centric approach to problem solving and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics at Yale UniversityIntensive summer language study program Mandarin Chinese, Intensive summer language study program Mandarin Chinese at Princeton in BeijingHarvard Westlake School
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Github Skills (13)
debugging10
debug10
error-handling10
python10
refactor9
curses9
pygments9
refactoring9
unit-testing8
testing8
unit-test8
php6
terraform6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bpython/bpython
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
bpython - A fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Miriam focused on improving the bpython interactive interpreter, primarily by fixing bugs and enhancing the user experience. They addressed syntax errors, improved traceback formatting, and refactored code related to error handling and source code retrieval. The user also introduced a new interpreter subclass with pygments-based traceback coloring. They also refactored code for better error handling and source retrieval.
pythonpython-interactivebpythoninterpreterfancy
mlauter/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
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