Lauren Schaefer is a developer advocate for MongoDB. She began her career as a software engineer for IBM where she held a variety of roles including full-stack developer, test automation specialist, and growth hacking engineer. She went on to be a developer advocate at SugarCRM. Lauren holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and is the co-inventor of twelve issued United States patents. She has been working from her home office for the last decade and is an advocate of remote work options.
