Sarah Lafrance
Software Developer at Berkeley Lab
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Lafrance is a software developer with 11 years of experience building web applications and front-end systems, currently contributing to Berkeley Lab’s software efforts from Oakland, CA. Her background spans academia and industry—from UC Berkeley research roles to senior frontend work at startups like HOVER and Paladin Cyber—bringing a blend of research-driven problem solving and product-focused engineering. She has deep React and SVG experience, having rebuilt a sequence viewer/editor for synthetic biology that was integrated into a lab software suite and released open source. Comfortable bridging documentation, outreach, and engineering, she has presented work publicly and supported education initiatives from grade school tours to university teaching assistance. Her training in computer science, mathematics, and bioinformatics gives her a multidisciplinary edge for data-rich front-end challenges. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex scientific requirements into usable, well-documented interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, MS, Computer Science, Bioinformatics at University of California, DavisMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA, Computer Science, Mathematics, BA, Computer Science, Mathematics at Wellesley College
French
Github Skills (9)
modular9
synthetic8
bioinformatics7
vector7
django-blog5
django-project4
editor4
django3
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JBEI/openVectorEditor
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:299 commits, 30 PRs, 189 pushes in 1 year 5 months
JBEI/clusterCAD
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
A computational platform for type I modular PKS and NRPS design
Contributions:104 commits, 7 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pkscomputationalmodularnrps
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