Anna Lawley alawley1@gmail.com | Seattle, WA / Remote | (971) 284-1787 https://www.linkedin.com/in/annalawley/ Full Stack Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building and scaling customer-facing and internal web applications across edtech, infrastructure, and enterprise software. Led teams through migrations, defined technical requirements, and delivered reliable, secure systems used by enterprise and consumer clients. A career-long theme has been bridging front-end usability with backend scalability while mentoring teams and aligning engineering with product goals. Currently seeking senior full-stack or backend roles where I can apply both leadership and hands-on technical expertise to deliver high-impact solutions. Skills Languages & Frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6), Clojure, Java, React Native, HTML/CSS, Ruby, Python Databases & Infrastructure: Postgres, Datomic, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (S3), GCP Practices & Tools: Automated Testing/Unit Testing, Web Accessibility, Git, Agile/Scrum Experience Swing Education Senior Software Engineer 01/23-11/24 Designed and shipped new marketplace features to improve substitute teacher reliability, reducing last minute job cancellations and improving customer retention. Built shared component library to eliminate duplication across applications, reducing development time for new features and ensuring accessibility compliance. Developed and maintained EDL pipelines, allowing BizOps and Product to gather key business analytics and evaluate product initiative success. Puppet CD4PE/Cygnus Team Tech Lead/Senior Software Engineer 09/20-08/22 Rebuilt legacy React codebase into TypeScript with automated test coverage to address recurring regressions, cutting post-release bugs by 85% and eliminating multi-day manual QA before each quarterly release. Led team of 3 engineers to deliver UI for new orchestration product, scoping work, hiring, and onboarding staff to meet deadlines, resulting in an on-schedule enterprise product launch.
Represented team in org-wide planning discussions. Collaborated with tech leads on adjacent teams to develop mutually dependent features in parallel, reducing handoffs across 3 engineering teams. Triaged major security vulnerability in production release. Delivered initial report to product security team on scope of issue, allowing for CVE report to be created and remediation plan to be established. Direct Change Team Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer 03/17-08/20 Developed UI and APIs to enable orchestration workflows in the flagship product, addressing key customer requests in order to retain high-value customer accounts. Mentored and onboarded 4 engineers new to Clojure to reduce ramp-up time, enabling the team to hit release deadlines and increase delivery capacity. Led team’s collaboration w/ product and UX for multiple major product releases. Clarified product requirements to allow team to cut non-essential scope in order to hit release deadlines for key features. Met with customers to solicit feedback on pain points in flagship product, designed solutions and broke them down into tickets for the team, allowing us to address QoL asks from largest customer accounts. Education Epicodus, 2016 - Full-time coding bootcamp Lewis & Clark College, 2007-2011 - BA Philosophy