# Lydia Heater

> Senior Software Engineer at CarGurus

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lydiaheater

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ CarGurus
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ CarGurus
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Associate Software Engineer @ CarGurus
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Part-Time Instructor @ Juni Learning
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Online teaching to kids ages eight to eighteen for the following subjects:
1. Python Basics such as loops, functions, event listeners, lists, sets, dictionaries, recursion, searching and sorting algorithms, big-O notation and the basics of data science
2. Java Fundamentals including variable types, conditionals, loops, methods, one- and two-dimensional arrays, classes & objects, subclasses, and inheritance
3. Web Programming Concepts for frontend (HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery) and backend development (APIs and databases)

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ UNC Department of Computer Science
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Chapel Hill, NC
- Helped organize and teach a class on the basics of imperative programming, object-oriented programming and recursion
- Assisted during lectures and office hours by answering questions and debugging programs
- Collaborated with and aided first-time programmers in the creation of a personal project of their choice at the bi-annual hackathon called HACK110

### Software Engineering Intern @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Durham, North Carolina
- Collaborated with a partner intern in Securities Finance in the Fidelity Brokerage Technology group to implement a chatbot that handles queries about internal auditing data  
- Worked on a team using HTML, MySQL, Angular and JavaScript to implement a Natural Language Processing approach of improving the query response process

### Summer Tour Guide @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chapel Hill, NC
- Shared personal student experiences in a 1.5-hour tour of UNC’s campus 4-5 times a week
- Communicated with prospective students and their families in-person and via email to support them in their college search and promote UNC
- Participated in panels with other UNC students to answer questions about involvements on campus


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Information Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31