# Laura Poss

> Software Engineer at Block

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lauraposs

Skills include: Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, Javascript/Typescript, React, SQL, HTML, CSS, Git, Docker, Kubernetes

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Block
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apartment List
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Member of the Platforms team doing primarily backend development with a sprinkle of frontend work. In charge of a number of microservices across the engineering org with primary ownership of our services to manage geospatial data, images and videos (assets), as well as authentication and authorization (login/registration).

### Software Engineer @ Apartment List
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Member of a full stack team in charge of messaging and notifications to users. Maintained microservices responsible for facilitating the company's Message Center, as well as a suite of services for sending email, push, and SMS and the associated scheduling.

### Software Engineer @ GE Digital
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Rotation 3 - Additive Manufacturing (San Ramon, CA)
•	Cloud-enabling industrial-scale laser 3D printers onto GE’s Predix platform
•	Implementing cloud and edge-based Python analytics to reduce build maintenance costs through automation of print monitoring and performance
•	Creating dashboards and microapps for real-time monitoring and alerts of printing job status using Go, Polymer, & Vue.js

Rotation 2 - Operations Optimization (San Ramon, CA)
•	Contributed to the implementation of Spark-based analytic runtime framework which executes algorithms to generate insights to drive informed decision making and optimization of manufacturing efficiency
•	Implemented tenancy-based visual and computational streaming capabilities using Kafka, JavaScript, and Polymer to be fed into Spark runtime for efficient and loss-less invocation of analytics
•	Co-developed analytic to generate forecasted production output based on previous timeseries data

Rotation 1 - Brilliant Manufacturing Suite (Boston, MA)
•	Designed, developed, and implemented a new web application for scheduling factory work orders
•	Integrated scheduling algorithm into Java Spring backend, improving scalability and speed of existing capabilities

### Software Development Leadership Program (SDLP) Intern @ GE Corporate
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Albany, New York Area
Worked as a member of an Agile Scrum team to develop and maintain the HMI/SCADA product Proficy Cimplicity, an on-premise software suite consisting of more than 10 million lines of code written majorly in C/C++. Throughout the internship, I leveraged static code analysis to identify and fix various security flaws, upgraded the outdated password storage system for users, and refactored large swaths of code to ensure all functions used their secure counterparts.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering
Bucknell University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### The Lawrenceville School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29