Lara A.
Software Engineer
She has delivered high-impact projects across healthcare, mobility, and e-commerce, leading feature development, system architecture design, and cross-functional team collaboration.
Lara is known for building robust, maintainable software and creating efficient, sustainable development processes. She also mentors junior engineers and contributes to improving team practices. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in Computational Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she is honing her skills in fine-tuning large language models (LLMs).
Main expertise
Ruby on Rails7 years
Ruby7 years
Docker7 years
Agile7 yearsExperience4
Software Engineer
- Spearheaded three epics end-to-end, from requirement edge case refinement, technical architecture, and ticket breakdown to implementation, testing, and release, delivering essential dynamic patient consent functionality that was later extended to similar use cases.
- Resolved over 50 GitHub security issues to achieve SOC 2 compliance, onboarding and guiding junior engineers in the process.
- Led development on critical features by mentoring two junior engineers and conducting 600 code reviews.
- Delivered more than 100 full-stack Electronic Medical Record (EMR) features.
- Reported and addressed over 30 tech debt items across Rails and Vue.js codebases.
MySQL
JavaScript
Vue.jsDocker
PostgreSQL
Squad Lead
- Increased squad productivity by 15% by revamping the scrum process in alignment with business and technical stakeholders.
- Met evolving business needs by collaborating with the engineering director to launch a new growth squad and pivot it across three different business domains.
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JiraAgile
TrelloSenior Software Engineer I
- Led three junior engineers in architecting a new scalable microservice to personalize app home screen views and functionality for 2 million users.
- Oversaw steady, high-quality delivery by leading a cross-functional squad of six engineers through technical planning, best practice discussions, feature development, code reviews, blocker elimination, and end-to-end testing.
- Was selected to represent Swvl as a hackathon judge in Remotebase Hackfest 2021, which involved over 400 participants from 20+ countries.
- Conducted five technical interviews and designed and implemented onboarding plans for new hires at different levels.
MySQLJavaScript
MongoDBDockerPostgreSQLSoftware Engineer II
- Increased adoption of prepaid packages by 40% by leading a multi-squad project to build new cash payment and cross-sell features across a distributed system.
- Reduced sign-up drop-off rate by 20% by minimizing one-time password wait time through integration with a faster SMS service provider.
- Improved speed of the automated unit test suite by 10% by identifying and removing bottlenecks.
- Enabled microservices by encapsulating models behind a data access layer.
- Won 1 of 5 bounty prizes in the company’s 2020 internal hackathon by co-developing a content management system for the app help screen.
MySQLJavaScriptMongoDBDockerPostgreSQLAssessments
Engineering excellence
Lara’s overall performance in a 90-minute live technical assessment ranks in the top 5% of vetted Software Engineers at Proxify.
Education
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