Hey!
I'm Laura!
# About Me
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# My Projects
I love making things, be it writing fiction, creating spanning campaigns with friends in Dungeons & Dragons, or learning how to sew to create cosplays of my favorite characters for conventions. My focus almost always comes back to coding projects, be it small scripts to solve a niche problem or sprawling webapps. It's just an easy and accessible way to build fantastic creations.
My big project right now is Lantern Tabletop, a web app designed to function in a similar capacity to Roll20. Together with Lucy Awrey, we've been building a virtual tabletop toolchain for handling all of the disjointed aspects of our D&D games, from easily modifying character sheet structures to creating sprites or maps. It's a big project, but both of us would love to see a comprehensive tool like it exist out in the world, and so we've been working on it on and off for the past year.
That's just one of my projects, though. Check out the others on my Projects page.
# My Experience
I'm currently taking a break from a professional career to develop a personal project called Lantern Tabletop. Our goal is to create a service that is as light-weight on server usage as possible to create a user-friendly environment for playing Dungeons & Dragons or other tabletop games without the need to heavily monetize or disrupt the experience with advertisements. You can read more about it on the Projects page, check out our character sheet demo, or watch our progress on Github.
Prior to developing Lantern Tabletop, I worked at the Ford Motor Company. I developed an application for streamlining the process of requesting data from vehicles, allowing orders to be quickly placed and approved. This involved the use of Java, Spring Boot, and Angular to create a frontend system for placing orders and various microservices to handle the large quantities of data retrieved before packaging them up for consumption.
You can check out my other experience here!
You can also check out my resume!