Laura Eckman

About Laura Eckman

I like making things. So far in my career I\'ve had the opportunity to explore a variety of different projects - ML models for trying to find habitable exoplanets, data automation pipelines and visualization dashboards, new component libraries, report flows to keep users safe, and fun animations and graphics to highlight contributors on Reddit. I thrive on highly interactive projects that let me work creatively and closely with product partners, I especially love building tools, and even as a full stack dev, my heart is in the frontend.I\'m not picky about tech stacks, but I\'m strongest in Javascript/Typescript (with React or Web Components as frameworks) and python. I\'ve been picking up go recently as well!Team building is very important to me - I work best on balanced teams with a variety of experience levels and backgrounds. I love mentoring and having strong teammates to learn from. In multiple roles, I\'ve led the engineering interview process, onboarding, and internship programs to help continue to to develop a strong team culture. You can see some of my past personal projects at https://github.com/leckman - two I\'m particularly fond of are: Patchwork, a hackathon project that I completed and open-sourced while interning at Factual to help people manage their own open source package dependencies PurlPal, a proof of concept app to help knitters automatically keep their place in a a pattern via gesture and speech recognition

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Reddit, Inc.

   Jan 2023 — Present · Hilton Head Island, SC, US

   Running the Collectible Avatars Creator Program

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  2014

Skills

• Physics
• Teamwork
• Organizational Leadership
• Data Analysis
• Chemistry
• Java
• Linux
• Python
• Microsoft Office
• Cognitive Psychology
• Computer Science
• Calculus