Lorena Tacal
About Lorena Tacal
Lorena Tacal is a software engineer currently working at Starling Bank in London, England. She has a background in sports studies and personal training, along with extensive experience in software development, particularly in front-end technologies.
Work at Starling Bank
Lorena Tacal has been working at Starling Bank as a Software Engineer since 2019. In her role, she has taken on the responsibility of front-end expert within her team, overseeing pull request reviews and assisting colleagues with front-end tasks. Lorena has contributed to the development of various features, including the Disputes and Chargebacks functionalities within a React monolith application. She has also automated a Payment Limit feature, which significantly reduced processing time by one minute per application. Additionally, she enhanced the Cheques feature to manage increased load during the Covid pandemic.
Education and Expertise
Lorena Tacal has a strong educational background in software development and sports studies. She studied at Multiverse, where she achieved a Level 4 Software Developer qualification from 2019 to 2021. Prior to this, she completed a Master's degree in Sport and Performance at Babes-Bolyai University from 2009 to 2011, following a Bachelor's degree in the same field from 2006 to 2009. Lorena also pursued additional training in software development at freeCodeCamp and Udemy, focusing on technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, React, and Full Stack JavaScript.
Previous Work Experience
Before her current role at Starling Bank, Lorena Tacal worked in various positions. She was employed as a Personal Trainer at Ballymore for seven months in 2016, and also served as a Customer Service Assistant at Virgin Active for seven months in the same year. Additionally, she completed a Fitness Instructor course at Lifetime Training, achieving REPS Level 2 in 2016. Her diverse work experience has contributed to her skill set in both fitness and technology.
Technical Projects and Contributions
Throughout her career, Lorena Tacal has been involved in several technical projects. At Starling Bank, she developed a full stack CRUD application as her final project, utilizing the MERN stack to create a restaurant ordering and table booking system. She collaborated with a back-end colleague to create a screen that renders data from the third-party service Currency Cloud, implementing lists, tables, and filters. Her contributions have had a significant impact on the efficiency and functionality of applications at Starling Bank.