Laura Thomson
Head Of Engineering at Internet Society
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Thomson is a strategic technology leader with 14 years of experience scaling engineering organizations and products for internet-scale services. As Head of Engineering at Lumos and former SVP of Engineering at Fastly, she grew teams and platforms to support multiple product lines, drove 3x revenue growth while reducing severe incidents, and led large-scale acquisitions and integrations. At Mozilla she led engineering ops for Firefox—overseeing crash reporting that ingests millions of crashes daily—and has hands-on backend experience contributing to the Socorro crash pipeline. She combines deep operational rigor (resilience and release engineering) with a product-focused approach to increase deployment and feature velocity. A trustee and past treasurer of the Internet Society, she blends technical leadership with sector-level governance and open-source stewardship.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
TinternB. App Sci (with Distinction) Computer Science, B. App Sci (with Distinction) Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (10)
crash-reports10
python10
postgresql9
json9
web-development8
php8
web-application8
webapp8
database-design7
debugging7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-services/socorro
Sep 2011 - Jan 2015
Socorro is the Mozilla crash ingestion pipeline. It accepts and processes Breakpad-style crash reports. It provides analysis tools.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the Socorro crash ingestion pipeline, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. Their work included adding functionality to the CSV dump, modifying database administration functions, and updating the UI to display additional crash report data from the raw JSON. The user also addressed logging issues and improved the presentation of crash report details.
crash-reports
lauraxt/PMWD5E
Mar 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year 5 months
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