# Lauren McCarty

> Senior Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stainless
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY

### Senior Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Online Storage team!
- Architected a permissioned, auditable system for product engineers to securely access their live TiDB databases with Go and S3
- Sped up team-wide Aurora MySQL to TiDB migration using TypeScript to automate tedious, error prone tasks like tearing down replication, creating rollback clusters cloned from Terraform/YAML configs, and verifying offline dump parity in Redshift
- Led resharding of primary MongoDB cluster (at the time 150+ TB) to better isolate workloads and improve reliability
- Discovered and implemented a workaround for a SS table compaction bug affecting unbounded range queries to ensure a timely migration. Worked to align with the vendor on the issue and get a fix long term.
- Mentored a summer intern through the successful production deployment of a TiDB database cluster-to-cluster migration tool

### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
- Developed a system for monitoring and querying Stripe’s 1200+ MongoDB replica sets by health, config, sharding, etc.
- Iterated on design and feature set to best serve the needs of other Document Database engineers, especially those on-call
- Built a gRPC service in Go to discover replica sets from Consul and periodically index their metadata using Blevesearch
- Integrated the replica set search and lookup functionality into the team’s internal web tooling using React and Flow

### Software Engineer Intern @ Shuffle
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Shuffle was a podcast sharing and discovery platform centered around short digestible podcast highlights
- Spearheaded web-based internal tool for curating user feeds, managing the beta waitlist, monitoring the podcast audio transcription pipeline, and configuring automatic transcription for popular shows using React and TypeScript
- Facilitated product-wide database migration from Firestore (NoSQL) to PostgreSQL with an idempotent data importing system and dual write/read tooling for a smooth transition
- Collaborated with frontend engineers to deliver features such as social loop notifications, following, comment liking

### Software Engineer Intern @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Worked in Java on the incentive (e.g. coupon, credit, cash) issuance service, designed as the service-oriented architecture replacement for a fragmented incentive ecosystem
- Developed budget management and other safety/security features into the incentive issuance service to protect against costly mistakes or programmer error
- Integrated budget management into the incentive program configuration web app using React, TypeScript, Redux
- Migrated database schemas and crafted budget alert email templates using Ruby
- Tracked usage, performance, and error rates with Datadog

### COS 217 Undergraduate Grader @ Princeton University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Princeton, NJ
- Grade assignments for large CS major prerequisite course

### Summer Intern @ Rutgers University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | North Brunswick, NJ
- Rutgers WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Laboratory)
- Augmented the safety and functionality of a bicycle with an app and wireless connected sensors, lights, and lock
- Controlled system over Bluetooth LE from Android app by implementing a GATT server on a Raspberry Pi


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science
Princeton University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lauren-mccarty-software
- Portfolio: https://laurenmcc.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/sheepda

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Last updated: 2026-04-10