# Lauren Albert > Software Engineer | Amazon ⚡️ | Shopify Alum 💚 | Fintech Fanatic | Athlete 💪🏼 | Musician 👩🏼‍🎤 Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/laurenalbert I bring an energizing mix of enthusiasm, dedication, and proactivity to the teams and projects I work on, fueled by a hunger for growth. My ability to dive deep into complex systems and acquire expertise quickly sets me apart. With a magnetic personality, positive energy, and effective communication, I infuse teams with an extra spark. My attention to detail and commitment to excellence consistently propels project success. As a natural leader, I take pride in guiding and empowering others. Industry Skills: Empowered as a software engineer in the fintech industry, achievements continue to climb new heights. My expertise in cutting-edge technologies, including Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, MySQL, NodeJS, and React, along with my hunger to always learn more has been the driving force behind my success. Within Shopify, I have left an indelible mark, revolutionizing systems, automating processes, and seamlessly integrating with industry-leading payment providers like PayPal and Stripe. With my dynamic leadership abilities, I have spearheaded cross-functional team projects, delivering innovative solutions such as an automated KYC-compliant merchant debiting system and revenue share model. I bring unwavering commitment, strong and growing technical acumen, and increasing leadership prowess to the ever-evolving world of fintech. Together, let's shape the future of this exciting industry. ## Work Experience ### Member @ AI Circle Jan 2026 – Present ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ownify Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote Led and launched Credit Underwriting Platform Led and launched Customer Portal: Account management, Payment Accounts, Recurring Payments CRM integration, Database Management, DevOps ### Software Engineer - Payments Account Management @ Shopify Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote - Engineered a highly scalable solution to eliminate storage of over 5 million records and growing, optimizing access and creation by pointing to one source of truth for people on the payments account - Owned cross functional financial technology project and built automated system to enable KYC compliant merchant debiting, recovering millions dollars in potential monthly losses - Built robust, reliable test suites for remote testing with Stripe, integration tests and production observability dashboards which enhanced integration and compatibility - Optimized debugging and issue resolution, improving customer experience for 2 million clients processing 50 billion dollars in annual financial transactions - Triaged and solved over 200 merchant support requests with deep empathy for 2 million clients ### Software Engineer - Partner Payouts @ Shopify Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States - Automated the SOX Compliant reconciliation of over 8 million monthly financial records between Shopify and 3rd parties like Hyperwallet ensuring efficiency, security, scalability, and accuracy of financial data - Lead project to enable multi-currency support for billions of app and in-app purchases in 128 currencies ### Software Engineer - Billing @ Shopify Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 - Created and migrated clients to GraphQL APIs for contract management, enabling 20K+ clients to set up recurring charges and manage contract features like trials, metered billing, tiered pricing, and discounts - Crafted discount feature for contract API for 20K+ partners, leading team of 5 to business and technical decisions for complex cycle tick logic - Worked with engineers to collaborate and implement local currency billing by designing and refactoring billing system API design impacting 2 million merchants and growing - Directed a project to introduce a new revenue share model for 20K+ 3rd party developers integrating with accounting, payment processing and payment dashboard teams - Introduced and configured APIs to calculate daily net revenue for 20K+ partners, efficiently processing 2 million records daily to determine revenue share - Mentored back-end developer interns leading to an increase in their output, project completion, and job offers at the company and enabling their ability to constantly learn new technologies ### Software Engineer in Residence @ Hack Reactor Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, NY, United States Developing in-house software and mentoring engineering students as they learn advanced Javascript, NodeJS, testing, optimization, scaling, and software engineering interview preparation skills. ### Founder @ Tutor Me, Lauren Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | Santa Cruz, California ## Education ### Advanced JavaScript Software Engineering Immersive ( < 5% acceptance Rate) Hack Reactor ### Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chains and Information Systems, Economics, Finance Penn State University ### Piano and Vocal Performance Cabrillo College ### Applied AI Deep Atlas Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pleaseonthekeys - Website: https://skill-alchemy-engine.lovable.app --- Source: https://flows.cv/laurenalbert JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/laurenalbert/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23