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Working With Code: How Does a Backend Engineer for the FEC Do Her Job?

Working With Code: How Does a Backend Engineer for the FEC Do Her Job?

Meet Laura Beaufort, a backend engineer for the Federal Elections Commission.

Working · Slate Podcasts

January 12, 202031m 6s

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Show Notes

This week, Working is bringing you unaired episode from October 2019’s Working With Code mini-series, where Slate’s own Greg Lavallee talked to people who write the software that makes your digital life possible. 

In this episode, Greg sits down with Laura Beaufort, a backend engineer for the Federal Elections Commission. Laura talks about her experiences working as a coder for a government agency, the collaborative nature of open-source coding, and how she achieves “flow.”


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