After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in philosophy-neuroscience-psychology, Laura worked as a neuroscience researcher at UC Davis. She conducted fMRI, EEG, and eye-tracking experiments, analyzed data in Matlab and Python, administered the lab Linux server, and co-authored a publication in Neuron. Laura discovered her passion for programming after teaching herself some Python to help with data analysis in the lab, and decided to pursue a career in web development at Hackbright. Follow her on Twitter @heylaurakelly and on GitHub @laurakelly. Laura graduated from the Hackbright engineering fellowship class of Summer 2012.