# Laura Conwill Wenstrand > Senior Software Engineer at Scribe Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lauraconwillwenstrand I am a full stack software engineer who loves building products from the early stages of ideation to their public launches. I have worked closely with designers and product managers to hone feature requirements, and I have led engineering teams through scoping, architecture, and execution. I energize teams and emphasize communication across disciplines, with experience ranging from seed-stage startups to post-IPO companies. I thrive in situations with ambitious objectives and lots of moving parts, where coordination among multiple stakeholders and orchestration between teams is crucial. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Scribe Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Founding Engineer @ Potion (YC S21) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, CA As a founding engineer at Potion I worked on the company’s chemical stability test and AI-based prediction software, transforming it from an MVP to a market-ready product. In this role, I: - Wrote engineering design documents for new features within Potion’s chemical stability test and AI-based prediction software. - Built out features using React, Javascript, and Typescript. - Created feature launch plans and led the QA and launch of new features, requiring the coordination of cross-functional partners. - Led weekly engineering org meetings to determine roadmap and team best practices. - Designed and implemented processes for software engineering interviews, and conducted interviews covering coding and culture fit. ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Glossier, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New York, NY Architected and prototyped the database and API to enable the sale of third-party products, utilizing Airtable, DynamoDB, Amazon Athena, AWS Lambdas, and Algolia. Designed database tables and wrote API endpoints using DynamoDB and AWS Lambdas for a community-building product forum. Brought Glossier into GDPR and CCPA compliance by integrating the OneTrust cookie compliance tool. Documented and developed the procedure to ensure new features on Glossier’s websites would be compliant. Led implementation for adding Afterpay as a payment method on Glossier.com, leading to a conversion rate increase of 10 BPS. - Wrote technical design document for Afterpay implementation, outlining how to extend existing checkout system to support new payment method - Served as engineering liaison with Afterpay and Stripe for project scoping and implementation - Worked cross-functionally with design, product, marketing and data teams Iteratively updated Glossier’s cart and checkout system written in Rails, React, and AWS Lambdas. - Improved stability and reliability of cart/checkout architecture, contributing to a 75% reduction in error rate - Focused on experience for paying with Apple Pay and Google Pay; triaged existing implementation to identify areas for improvement - Wrote documentation for checkout process and cart architecture for internal use by the engineering team, resulting in faster onboarding and more consistent development of ancillary features Led interview process for engineering hires; covered technical architecture and design, coding problem solving, team projects, collaboration, and culture. Supported new hires as an onboarding mentor from orientation through their first feature deployment. Created a team-wide onboarding template for subsequent hires. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Etsy Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, NY Tech lead for Targeted Offers project, working with team of four engineers, product manager and designer. Scoped and led work for developing Targeted Offers emails, allowing sellers to send coupon codes to potential buyers who had already added those items to their cart. Led launch to expand Targeted Offers to potential buyers who had “favorited” items but not yet added them to the cart. Worked on the React tool for sellers to set up Targeted Offer campaigns, backend logic features for determining when to send emails, and implementing Etsy’s Salesforce integration for sending emails. Further activities include: Drove discussions on code review guidelines for my team, and created a template to be used as a starting point for other teams throughout Etsy to develop their own code review guidelines. Organized a tech debt sprint - identified potential work, led a meeting with engineers to prioritize tech debt tasks. Conducted over one hundred hiring interviews for interns, software engineers, senior software engineers, and engineering managers. Created a mock interview program to give Etsy engineers practice in conducting technical interviews. Mentored high school interns from the ScriptEd program; helped to scope out work items; served as a point of contact for day-to-day technical questions. Founded and led a weekly Japanese language study club; taught two “Etsy School” Japanese language and craft workshops. ### Software Engineer @ Etsy Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, NY One of four initial engineers for Etsy Studio, Etsy’s new standalone craft supply marketplace, creating a parallel website and checkout system to that of Etsy.com. Implemented multishop checkout and shopping cart “save for later” features, coordinating with the Etsy checkout team to ensure Etsy Studio changes were made in an easily maintainable matter. Created a document outlining where Etsy Studio forked from Etsy throughout the checkout flow to facilitate understanding by the Etsy checkout team of how their changes might impact Etsy Studio. Developed post-purchase flow features, including the order history page and transactional emails. ### Software Engineer @ Decisive Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York, NY Developed features for self-serve mobile advertising platform, utilizing Django, Javascript, Mongo, Node, HTML, CSS. ### Program Manager, Bing User Experience @ Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Bellevue, WA Developed search engine results page features through interface with designers. Drove projects with dev and test counterparts, and collaborated across multiple teams. Created and developed Bounce lunch program to promote sharing of ideas, learning, and camaraderie across different teams within PM and design org. ### Interhouse Committee Chair @ California Institute of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Directed the committee of House Presidents and worked with Caltech administration to develop policies and manage issues related to residential and student life. Served as Vice President of Non-Academic Affairs on the Associated Students of Caltech (ASCIT) Board of Directors. ### Research Intern, Microsoft Research @ Microsoft Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Redmond, WA Internship with Jonathan Fay in the Microsoft Research Connections Group. Designed algorithms for a WorldWide Telescope network graph visualization tool. ### Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow @ California Institute of Technology Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Research in the Djorgovski Group: Extracting Meaning from Astronomical Event Notifications. Poster presented at the 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. ### Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow @ California Institute of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Research in the Koch Lab: Effect of a Visual Stimulus on Preferential Access to Awareness. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Caltech ### Yamhill Carlton High School ### The American School in Japan ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lauraconwill --- Source: https://flows.cv/lauraconwillwenstrand JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lauraconwillwenstrand/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22