# Laurel Woods

> SWE @ Figma

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/laurel

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2022 – Present

### Data Editor @ Daily Bruin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Editor for The Stack, the Daily Bruin's data journalism section

### Data Journalist @ Daily Bruin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Collect, analyze, and visually represent data for student newspaper's data & tech blog
- Use python for data analysis and JavaScript libraries (D3, Chart.js, Leaflet, etc.) for visualization 
- Worked on interactive article modeling COVID-19 spread with over 30,000 views

### Software Engineer Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### President @ Building Engineers and Mentors at UCLA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Curriculum Director @ Building Engineers and Mentors at UCLA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Teach hands-on science activities to students in Title I elementary school in Los Angeles
- Foster enthusiasm for STEM among young kids

### Mentor @ Building Engineers and Mentors at UCLA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineering Intern @ Gusto
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Software engineering intern on the Trust & Safety team

- Built a user account activity webpage showing sensitive account changes to improve security
- Worked with Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and React to capture, write, and query the user events
- Collaborated with product & design teams on plans for the account activity page
- Spearheaded GraphQL learning within my team and gave a presentation on uses & best practices

### Software Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
- Built an internal webpage in React for the operations team to view & troubleshoot stuck packages
- Coded in Java and used AWS services to get updates on shipment statuses and write to a database
- Participated in an intern hackathon to build an Alexa skill that helped teachers take attendance

### Instructor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Redwood City, CA and Los Angeles, CA
- Taught math to students ages 5 to 18. 
- Collaborated with a team of instructors to provide individual attention to students while in a group setting.

### Intern @ Arctic Ice Project
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, CA
- Interned at an environmental nonprofit developing materials to slow Arctic ice melt
- Designed and executed an experiment testing the reflectivity of materials and analyzed data 
- Worked with a Raspberry Pi and taught myself Python


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Cognitive Science
UCLA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### Woodside High School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


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

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/laurel/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22