Lara A.

Software Engineer

Lara is a seasoned software engineer with over seven years of commercial experience in backend and full-stack development, specializing in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Python.

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 Rails
    Ruby on Rails 7 years
  • Ruby
    Ruby 7 years
  • Docker
    Docker 7 years

Other skills

  • GitHub Actions
    GitHub Actions 5 years
  • Grafana
    Grafana 5 years
  • Kibana
    Kibana 3 years
Lara

Lara A.

Spain

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Selected experience

Employment

  • Software Engineer

    Kindbody - 1 year 11 months

    • 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.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • MySQL MySQL
    • JavaScript JavaScript
    • Vue.js Vue.js
    • Docker Docker
    • PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
    • Ruby Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails
    • AWS AWS
    • HTML HTML
    • GraphQL GraphQL
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • SQL SQL
    • Bash Bash
    • Jira Jira
    • Agile Agile
    • Git Git
    • REST API REST API
    • GitHub Actions GitHub Actions

  • Squad Lead

    Swvl - 10 months

    • 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.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • Grafana Grafana
    • Jira Jira
    • Agile Agile
    • Trello Trello

  • Senior Software Engineer I

    Swvl - 10 months

    • 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.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • MySQL MySQL
    • JavaScript JavaScript
    • MongoDB MongoDB
    • Docker Docker
    • PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
    • AWS AWS
    • HTML HTML
    • Node.js Node.js
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • SQL SQL
    • Bash Bash
    • Google Cloud Google Cloud
    • BigQuery BigQuery
    • Jira Jira
    • Agile Agile
    • Git Git
    • REST API REST API
    • NoSQL
    • GitHub Actions GitHub Actions

  • Software Engineer II

    Swvl - 11 months

    • 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.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • MySQL MySQL
    • JavaScript JavaScript
    • MongoDB MongoDB
    • Docker Docker
    • PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
    • AWS AWS
    • HTML HTML
    • Node.js Node.js
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • SQL SQL
    • Bash Bash
    • Google Cloud Google Cloud
    • BigQuery BigQuery
    • Jira Jira
    • Agile Agile
    • Git Git
    • REST API REST API
    • NoSQL
    • GitHub Actions GitHub Actions

Education

  • MSc.Computational Linguistics

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · 2024 - 2026

  • BSc.Sociology

    American University in Cairo · 2013 - 2017

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