About

Lauren K. is a Senior Software Engineer at Turo with over 10 years of relevant experience in the field. She is a passionate individual with a creative flair for design and a love for technical problem-solving. Her interests intersect perfectly in frontend engineering, which allows her to push the boundaries of her knowledge, collaborate with like-minded individuals, and create engaging applications that help others. At Turo, Lauren has extensive cross-functional experience working with product managers and designers to craft features from inception to implementation. She is known for producing high-quality, maintainable code that is near-picture perfect to specification. Lauren is also skilled in time estimation and project breakdown, which helps her deliver first-class features on schedule. Her recent projects include the Profile page and Carculator. Lauren also played a crucial role in migrating Turo's original front-end platform from a Java monolith with JSP templates to a stand-alone React/Redux Node application. She has mentored intern associates and helped them quickly and successfully ramp up. Lauren ensures proper technical design and documentation and regularly contributes to the internal front-end guild to advance and improve Turo's platforms and development experience. Lauren's key technologies include React/Redux, Redux-form, Webpack, CSS/HTML, Java/JSP, Node, Segment, Jira, Zeplin, and SEO/Growth tactics. Her past companies include Turo, where she worked as a Software Engineer and Front-end Engineering Intern. At Turo, she built thoughtfully designed web pages/application components, created beautiful standards-compliant HTML pages, developed reusable application components and standards, built mockups and prototypes, and produced high-quality code. Lauren holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Interior Design from CSU Chico and studied abroad at Griffith University in Gold Coast, Australia. Her tech stack includes Software Engineering, Frontend, Redux, Java, test, Javascript, and Web. Lauren is a curious, playful, and efficient individual who enjoys building scalable, well-tested, cleanly coded, and aesthetically pleasing applications.