About

Lauren G. is an experienced Infrastructure Security Lead with over 7 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. Currently working at Quora as a Sr Software Engineer - Infrastructure, she is responsible for leading the Security team in the areas of Detection & Response, Incident Management, Threat Assessment, and Hardening. Prior to her current role, Lauren worked at Google as a Software Engineer - Security, where she was part of the first successful Sec-ML team. She also worked at Postmates Inc. as a Data Scientist - NLP Lead, where she reduced preauthorization failures by 57% by extracting items data from unstructured custom order text fields automatically, computed price estimation for each item, and built a neural network to predict and resolve customer service issues based on SMS messages between couriers and customers. Lauren also developed metrics for fraud and payments, built NLU models, and designed and implemented fraud detection features on distributed systems using a microservice structure. Lauren's educational background includes a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Davis. Her tech stack includes experience in infra, software engineering, NLU, NLP, ML, data science, research science, neural networks, microservices, and Postgres. Overall, Lauren is a highly skilled and accomplished professional with a proven track record of success in the tech industry. Her strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and experience in security and fraud detection make her a valuable asset to any organization.