Kara McLaughlin

Senior Software Engineer

New York City, New York, United States6 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Graduated magna cum laude in Computer Science.
Experienced in backend and database development.
Proficient in multiple programming languages and frameworks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in database development and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaSql.netC#PythonElasticsearchHtml

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkALICEApps ScriptC++CSSCreative Problem SolvingData ScienceData StructuresDatabase Management System (DBMS)JavaScriptJiraLinuxMSSQLMachine Learning AlgorithmsMentoring

About

Software Engineer specializing in backend and database development. Graduated magna cum laude from Saint Joseph’s University Honors School (2021) with a major in Computer Science and minors in Data Science and Mathematics. Technologies: C#, Java, Python

Experience

Wells fargo

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Technologies: Java, React, SQL

JavaReactSQL

Chubb

2 roles

Full Stack Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

Technologies: .NET, C#, MSSQL

.NETC#MSSQL

Software Engineer Associate

Jun 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Saint joseph's university

3 roles

Programmer in DSS Department

Mar 2021 – May 2021 · 2 mos

Created a search function and UI for an ElasticSearch database with synonym capability through Wordnet and Solr
Worked with text clustering in Python to find the collective topics of academic PDFs. Uses a K-Means algorithm and Python's NLTK package.
Technologies: Python, ElasticSearch, NLTK

PythonElasticSearchNLTK

Programmer on SDG Team

Promoted

Feb 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Created an algorithm for a new rating called SDG Impact Intensity™ on Cabell’s Scholarly Analytics based on each journal’s compliance with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals with Python on Jupyter Notebook. Outputs a 3-star rating and the top three SDGs.
Wrote a web scraper in Python that takes an input of a journal’s ISSN and outputs a CSV file of all of the articles contained in the Journal and their abstracts using CrossRef and Google Scholar.
Maintained website that was linked in UN PRME’s “BLUEPRINT FOR SDG INTEGRATION INTO CURRICULUM, RESEARCH AND PARTNERSHIPS” with Wordpress, HTML, and CSS
Presented work at the UGC conference, RMER conference, and the Altmetric conference
Technologies: Python, HTML, CSS, Apps Script, Tableau

PythonHTMLCSSApps ScriptTableau

Computer Science Tutor

Sep 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

Tutored peers in CSC 120 - Computer Science I, CSC 121 - Computer Science II, CSC 150 - The Joy of Computing, CSC 201 - Data Structures, and CSC 202 - Computer Architecture classes
Cemented fundamental computer science skills through explaining them to students and conferring with professors
Technologies: Java, Python, C#, ALICE

JavaPythonC#ALICE