Summary
Vinod Lala is a Senior Software Engineer II in New York with 11 years of professional engineering experience, currently working with Ruby on Rails, RSpec, gRPC, Git, and SQL. He brings a rare blend of classroom pedagogy and production software experience—after a decade teaching AP science and mentoring a championship FRC robotics team, he transitioned into full-time web and backend engineering. His background includes legacy mainframe development (COBOL, JCL) and modern web stacks, enabling him to bridge monolithic systems and contemporary services. At companies like Vimeo, Freshly, and Spring Health he has focused on reliable, test-driven delivery and service integration. Vinod’s teaching roots inform his collaborative mentoring style and his aptitude for explaining complex systems to diverse teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at Fullstack Academy
Mainframe Programming, Mainframe Programming at Chubb Institute
MS, Secondary Education (Science), MS, Secondary Education (Science) at Queens College
BS, Psychobiology (Integrative Neuroscience), BS, Psychobiology (Integrative Neuroscience) at Binghamton University
Regis High School