# Lauren Arnett

> Backend Software Engineer @ Shortcut

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/laurenarnett

I am a programmer living in NYC interested in backend development. I graduated as a Computer Science major from Columbia University in 2019. I have been working as a Software Engineer since then, using Clojure and ClojureScript. In 2021 I attended a batch at the Recurse Center, where I focused on studying Haskell, distributed systems, and SIMD parallelism.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Backend @ Shortcut
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Backend Engineer @ Shortcut
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States

### Participant @ Recurse Center
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States

### Associate Software Developer @ BroadPeak Partners
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Designed and scaled a data pipeline and APIs for streaming energy market trade data to ETL system.
• Led full‐stack development on interface in Clojure & ClojureScript with React for allocating trades. Built
backend permissions and frontend UI configurability features

### Research Intern, Data Science Institute @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
Conduct research in the fields of computational social science and SQL query log encoding. Advised by Professor Eugene Wu.

### Instructional Assistant @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
Advised Programming Languages and Translators student groups in semester-long compiler projects in OCaml and held office hours.

### Software Developer, Media Center for Art History @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
Architected a computer vision system for digitization of 35mm slides using OpenCV and Keras. Deployed models to on-premise GPUs to run on over 400,000 images.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Columbia University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### De Pere High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/laurenarnett1
- Website: https://laurenarnett.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-20