Tara Larsen
Technical Project Coordinator
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTara Larsen is a technical project coordinator and self-taught software engineer with eight years of experience bridging DevOps, site reliability, and front-end development to deliver measurable operational improvements. She has driven incident management and automation at Major League Baseball—boosting incident data quality 30%, SLOs 20%, and FireHydrant adoption by 30%—and improved user engagement and test automation at Indeed. Comfortable across tools like Terraform, Jenkins, Grafana, GitHub, and Confluence, she excels at streamlining workflows, API integrations, and documentation migrations that reduce review times and accelerate resolution. A former teacher turned engineer, Tara brings strong communication and stakeholder empathy to technical projects, enabling smoother cross-functional collaboration. She’s actively pursuing roles in DevOps, solutions engineering, and technical project coordination where she can combine hands-on automation with strategic process design. Based in California, she pairs a practical cloud curiosity with a track record of turning operational pain points into scalable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
JavaScript, JavaScript at General AssemblyUMass LowellCalifornia Multiple Subject and General Science Teaching Credential, California Multiple Subject and General Science Teaching Credential at California State University, ChicoAdventurer Rank Salesforce, Adventurer Rank Salesforce at Salesforce Talent Alliance Career Cohorts
English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
javascript9
placement9
openweather9
open-source9
capstone7
scrapy6
spider6
location6
mvp6
ruby6
mongodb5
forecast5
nodejs5
geojson5
scraper5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
talarsen/wildfire-commander
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
This is my capstone project for Techtonica. It is built with the PERN stack. The MVP is a dashboard that renders data from a particular wildfire, a topo map of the area and the current forecast for one fire at a time. This app uses the GoogleMaps and OpenWeather APIs.
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 3 months
openweatherparticularforecastdashboardreactjs
talarsen/techtonica-assignments
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Tara's Techtonica Assignments
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 months
techtonica
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