# Laura Shepherd (she/her)

> Senior Software Engineer at Dwolla

Location: Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/laurashepherdsheher

Flexible generalist software developer. Focused on learning and adapting to new projects, industries, and teams. Driven by continuous improvement of the project, self, and team (not one independent of the other), strong communication and open collaboration.

From the telecommunication industry in enterprise web application development, to the physical therapy industry in machine learning and predictive analytics, to involvement in intern social planning and university recruiting, I enjoy balance, variety, and learning new things.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Dwolla
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Dwolla
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Des Moines, Iowa Area

### Adjunct Professor @ Drake University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Software Engineering Professor for 2 semesters. Built curriculum and instructed classes of ~15 students on topics such as Git, automated testing, agile methodology, and API/web development using Node.js.

### Associate @ Pariveda Solutions
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chicago, Illinois
Small team leadership for versatile projects including the following:

1. Web-app Platform Development for National Telecommunications Corporation
•	True agile team including daily standup and formal sprint ceremenies. Team used JIRA for issue tracking.
•	Led Angular 7 component library development efforts by maintaining active communication with UX designer during specification creation, and translating specifications into reality by coordinating a small team.
•	Contributed to Nodejs development of distributed microservices and API development.
•	Oauth Authentication with Okta integration
•	Jasmine/Karma frontend and Jest backend unit tests
•	SQL Server and MongoDB
•	Jenkins CI/CD

### Consultant @ Pariveda Solutions
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Involvement in a variety of projects including the following:

1. Machine Learning Model Development and Productionalization for a National Physical Therapy Firm
•	Data manipulation and experimentation using python in Jupyter Notebooks on AWS Sagemaker
•	Model building and deployment using Scikit-Learn python libraries
•	POC productionalized model using sql server agent jobs to evaluate new daily patient data
•	A/B testing plan proposal

### Bioinformatics research @ University of Iowa
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Iowa City, Iowa Area
Image processing and machine learning. 
•	Image processing: Preprocessing in many languages such as Java, C++, and python. 
•	Machine learning: WEKA beginnings, and utilized the Caffe deep learning framework in order to automate image classification.

### Intern @ Athena GTX
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Collaborative experience with small team of software developers. 
•	Consulted with customer to build web application. Gathered new requirements and demonstrates features from previous iteration
•	Learned and successfully applied new technologies and frameworks (JavaScript+AngularJS, PHP, SQL)
•	Implemented functionality to automatically propagate form fields with current geolocation and weather data using Google Maps API and SimpleWeatherJS
•	Conducted use-case tests on multiple industry literate people to improve software usability for customers
•	Researched to complete technical paper and associating quad chart which I presented to entire company


## Education
### Electrical Computer Engineering in Software Engineering
University of Iowa
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/laura-shepherd-she-her-a9513859

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Last updated: 2026-03-22