# Lauren Guthrie

> SWE @ Google

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Laurel, Maryland, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Laurel, Maryland, United States
- Enhanced UI for tagging a binary file in a malware analysis tool using Python and Django framework, improving user experience by streamlining the process, implemented access controls, restricting category modifications and new additions to administrators, and preventing the addition of blank tags.
- Implemented a new REST API endpoint to gather targeted information for tagging, enhancing the tool's capabilities in extracting specific data.
- Contributed to the integration of custom services, enabling users to add their own services to the malware analysis tool, and helped author comprehensive documentation for users to seamlessly integrate new services.
- Designed and prototyped a UI redesign, demonstrating improved aesthetics and user interface enhancements for the malware analysis tool.
- Significantly enhanced webpage performance by optimizing binary job loading, reducing time from 8 seconds to a rapid 0.0700 seconds—achieving a remarkable 114x increase in loading speed.

### SWE Intern (Furball) @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
- Used Java and Google infrastructures to help create a budgeting tool to promote proactive budget tracking.
- Conceptualized, developed, and expanded an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) service tailored for efficient data retrieval and transmission. 
- Introduced new RPC endpoints to facilitate diverse data exchange requirements, enhancing the service's versatility and utility.
- Led the backend development of the Budgeting Tool, driving the successful implementation of key features and functionalities.
- Used SQL to develop efficient queries to query and parse through large databases.
- Executed the development process, including implementation and design documentation.

### STEP Intern (App Ads EngProd) @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Developed internal tools to increase productivity for software engineers.
- Utilized Python to develop an automated robot to promote healthy habits when filling out criteria for a resolved task.
- Completed the full design process of design, review, implementation, and testing for a web application that allowed engineers to automatically silence anticipated alerts to maintain focus on vital alerts.

### STEP Intern ( Borg Prime Team) @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Implemented support for additional query parameters on internal sites to improve the user interface reducing loading times by 97%
- Utilized C++, and a variety of Google infrastructures to improve the performance and usability of Borg Prime.
- Developed support for new server to Borg Prime service to ease migration


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Howard University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

### Google Tech Exchange Program

### Associate of Arts - AA in Computer Science
Valencia College


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05