Work

Project briefs — what the problem was, how it got built, and what came out the other side.

One CI component, grounded in specifications, a termbase and translation instructions, turning changes in Orbit, about.gitlab.com and GitLab Operator into Japanese, Korean and French merge requests, each reviewed by GitLab Duo

Platform & tooling

GitLab2026

CI Translation Components

Turning a hackathon prototype into a production translation pipeline that ships localized content as ordinary merge requests.

GitLab CI/CD Components
GitLab AI Gateway
GitLab Runner
Hugo

The GitLab documentation site with its language selector set to Japanese

Platform & tooling

GitLab2025 — 2026

Japanese product documentation

Shipping docs.gitlab.com's first localized locale — the site plumbing, the language selector, and the launch itself.

Hugo
Go templates
JavaScript
YAML

The XYZ Textbooks online reader showing a calculus chapter

Applications

XYZ Textbooks2013 — 2015

XYZ online textbook platform

An interactive math textbook where every problem comes with a real instructor teaching you how to solve it — terabytes of video, served on demand, through a UI that has lasted 13 years.

JavaScript
PHP
MySQL
Sass

Lauren Barker at her desk, throwing a shaka beside a monitor full of code

Writing

GitLab Blog2021

CEO Shadow takeaways

Two weeks stepping out of the code to shadow GitLab's CEO — what it was like, and what I brought back to my team.