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Hi, I'm Lauren Flannery, a passionate software engineer with extensive experience developing and maintaining large-scale web applications and software systems. I've contributed to projects for major media companies like the New York Post and Penske Media Corporation, working across both front-end and back-end technologies to enhance performance, accessibility, and user experience. I enjoy coding innovative features, improving legacy systems, and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality software. I have a strong background in JavaScript, React, Node.js, PHP, and AWS among other technologies, and I thrive in dynamic remote work environments. My experience spans from building interactive dashboards to developing ad tech solutions and managing continuous deployments for high-traffic platforms. I'm eager to bring my skills and enthusiasm for software development to new challenges and opportunities.…Hi, I'm Lauren Flannery, a passionate software engineer with extensive experience developing and maintaining large-scale web applications and software systems. I've contributed to projects for major media companies like the New York Post and Penske Media Corporation, working across both front-end and back-end technologies to enhance performance, accessibility, and user experience. I enjoy coding innovative features, improving legacy systems, and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality software. I have a strong background in JavaScript, React, Node.js, PHP, and AWS among other technologies, and I thrive in dynamic remote work environments. My experience spans from building interactive dashboards to developing ad tech solutions and managing continuous deployments for high-traffic platforms. I'm eager to bring my skills and enthusiasm for software development to new challenges and opportunities.

Lauren Flannery

Web Developer, Programmer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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Hi, I'm Lauren Flannery, a passionate software engineer with extensive experience developing and maintaining large-scale web applications and software systems. I've contributed to projects for major media companies like the New York Post and Penske Media Corporation, working across both front-end and back-end technologies to enhance performance, accessibility, and user experience. I enjoy coding innovative features, improving legacy systems, and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality software. I have a strong background in JavaScript, React, Node.js, PHP, and AWS among other technologies, and I thrive in dynamic remote work environments. My experience spans from building interactive dashboards to developing ad tech solutions and managing continuous deployments for high-traffic platforms. I'm eager to bring my skills and enthusiasm for software development to new challenges and opportunities.…Hi, I'm Lauren Flannery, a passionate software engineer with extensive experience developing and maintaining large-scale web applications and software systems. I've contributed to projects for major media companies like the New York Post and Penske Media Corporation, working across both front-end and back-end technologies to enhance performance, accessibility, and user experience. I enjoy coding innovative features, improving legacy systems, and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality software. I have a strong background in JavaScript, React, Node.js, PHP, and AWS among other technologies, and I thrive in dynamic remote work environments. My experience spans from building interactive dashboards to developing ad tech solutions and managing continuous deployments for high-traffic platforms. I'm eager to bring my skills and enthusiasm for software development to new challenges and opportunities.

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Hi, I’m Lauren Flannery, a passionate software engineer with extensive experience developing and maintaining large-scale web applications and software systems. I’ve contributed to projects for major media companies like the New York Post and Penske Media Corporation, working across both front-end and back-end technologies to enhance performance, accessibility, and user experience. I enjoy coding innovative features, improving legacy systems, and collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality software.

I have a strong background in JavaScript, React, Node.js, PHP, and AWS among other technologies, and I thrive in dynamic remote work environments. My experience spans from building interactive dashboards to developing ad tech solutions and managing continuous deployments for high-traffic platforms. I’m eager to bring my skills and enthusiasm for software development to new challenges and opportunities.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer I / Software Engineer II at Alley Interactive

May 1, 2024 - Present

Built and maintained software for the New York Post WordPress multisite, one of the largest newspapers by circulation in America. Provided code reviews, QA testing, wrote unit tests, and handled deployments as part of a 17-person team. Developed a landing page and custom PHP features from a Figma template for the relaunch of the NY Post sports page. Improved functionality of RSS feeds for news aggregators like Microsoft and Apple. Enhanced performance and accessibility on both headless React-based sites and WordPress sites. Wrote features and tests that were backward-compatible with a legacy codebase while developing new work in Gutenberg blocks.

Associate Software Engineer – AdTech Team at Penske Media Corporation

April 30, 2024 - September 3, 2025

Maintained and updated Node-based software responsible for trafficking all ads to Penske brands like Rolling Stone and Variety, along with the SHE Media network sites that collectively receive millions of views each month. Collaborated with the team to overhaul the outstream video system to use Google Interactive Media Ads, reducing bundle size by 95%, decreasing errors, and increasing advertising rates. Led the front-end redesign of the player module. Developed new software features, wrote unit tests, reviewed code, conducted integration tests, and handled deployments for PMC’s Node application and React dashboard.

Graphics Developer at The Seattle Times

September 30, 2022 - September 3, 2025

Built visualization-heavy applications such as the COVID-19 dashboard, elections page, and PNW wildfire tracker that scraped daily data with a Node.js backend and published live results to AWS with automated deployments. Configured national reporting API endpoints for elections coverage to develop a vote counts feature that garnered over 700,000 page views. Scraped, cleaned, and analyzed data for high-profile investigation stories.

Interactives Developer at The Las Vegas Review-Journal

November 30, 2019 - September 3, 2025

Designer/Developer at The Tampa Bay Times

April 30, 2018 - September 3, 2025