My name is Laura and I'm a software engineer from Spain, currently working fully remote from Germany 🚀
After studying Psychology 🧠 I found another passion in software development 💻 and decided to pursue my career in this field 🤸♀️
💪 I have now more than 6 years of professional experience as a software engineer in B2B SaaS companies within international and agile working environments, in multiple cross-functional teams where product-engineering collaboration was paramount.
🙋♀️ At a more personal level, even though my ID card says I was born in Madrid, I'm segoviana to the bone. I like writing and photography 📷 which you can currently check out in my Flickr profile, but I will be hosting my creative work on a personal site soon 🙂. I would love to live where the mountains meet the sea 🗻🌊 with at least three cats 🐈 and a garden to grow my own vegetables 🍓
🌱 Currently learning Python 🐍 and deepening my accessibility knowledge
👩💻 My latest project: ✨ Tinybnb ✨ (published site | repo)
📩 Some cool content creators I follow to stay up to date:
Chek them out, they're really cool!
🤖 How I use AI
I do think AI is just another tool, it doesn't replace my skills and knowledge, but it can speed up development if you use it wisely. These are two really well-written posts by Den Delimarsky that illustrate exactly the way I feel about this topic: Agents Are Your Mech Suit and You Need To Become A Full Stack Person.
I'm learning how to do proper context engineering to be more efficient and avoid wasting unnecessary resources. Data privacy is also a big topic for me both in my personal and professional lives, so I'm very careful about the way I prompt AI agents.
In the past few months I've been using Cursor. I mainly use Cursor's agent for:
- Refactoring code to avoid repetitive tasks
- Implementing tests
- Implementing solutions that I'm unsure of, in a step-by-step way, asking questions to learn, and questioning the generated code when I know something's off or missing
In the past, I also used ChatGPT for more general questions that are not so related to the project I'm working on, or when I need to plan a bigger task and I'm unsure about the steps to follow. This is helping me learn in a much better and efficient way than just googling. Lately I've switched to Perplexity for this purpose.