Lauren Tan

Hi there! I'm an Engineering Manager at Meta supporting the React Runtime team. Previously I worked on a new experimental React technology (https://reactjs.org/server-components) to bring ✨ new data fetching capabilities ✨ to React apps.

Prior to Meta, I was an Engineering Manager at Netflix in the UI Engineering organization. I worked with a high-performance senior engineering team to build out a global content creation studio for Netflix. We invested in great user experiences to bring great stories from all over the world to life. Prior to management, I was the engineering lead for the Studio Programming team, delivering a sophisticated intelligence tool for scheduling and programming billions of dollars worth of original content.

My superpower is connecting the dots. Although formally educated in Finance, I've been involved in the intersections of technology, design, and business for more than a decade. As a self-taught designer and programmer, I empathize and learn rapidly to connect the cross-functional teams that I work with together. With my multidisciplinary background, I understand deeply that a large number of problems we try to solve for are very much human problems.

More importantly, I've learned how to sponsor others and to support them in achieving more than they had originally thought possible. I am deeply passionate about growing Women in Tech, and have publicly committed to using my platform to sponsor people from under-represented minorities (URMs).

I'm an active contributor to open source–maintaining a number of popular libraries, and a regular speaker at leading JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, Ruby and Elixir conferences.

More info on public speaking: https://www.no.lol/speaking