# Laura Eckman

> Staff Engineer @ Reddit

Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lauraeckman

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present | Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Area
Running the Collectible Avatars Creator Program

### Senior Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Santa Monica, California
Full stack engineer on Reddit's Economy team, which is responsible for direct-to-consumer products.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Factual Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California

### Software Engineer @ Factual Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area

### Software Engineer Summer Intern @ Factual Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
● Redesigned and updated site's contact page to be self-serve for the marketing department
● Contributed to Proximity Designer UI which help companies use location data in their ad targeting campaigns
● Developed and open sourced Patchwork, a tool to help developers keep track of their open source dependencies

### Intern @ Ab Initio Software
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Lexington, Massachusetts
Designed and developed a UI component library in Typescript to facilitate a shift away from Flash

### Research Intern @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA
Data analysis for astroinformatics. My project involved identifying stellar targets that are potential hosts to debris disks which could be signs of planetary existence or formation.


## Education
### BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/leckman

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Last updated: 2026-03-22