Senior Full-Stack Developer

About Me

Toronto · Remote

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A decade in tech has taught me that collaboration matters just as much as code. The best work is not just well-built — it is understood, maintained, and shaped by the people who rely on it.

I build and maintain web applications where performance and content flexibility need to hold up over time. Much of my work involves shipping features from design to production in CMS-driven systems with evolving requirements and multiple stakeholders. I focus on pragmatic engineering decisions that keep systems stable, fast, and easy to extend, and I prefer simple, durable solutions over unnecessary complexity.

Over the years, I've worked in organizations where marketing and product priorities evolve in parallel and platforms have to support both reliably. That has shaped how I approach engineering: prioritizing clarity, predictability, and long-term maintainability over short-term fixes.

I also care about helping teams work better in practice, whether that means enabling marketers to manage content more confidently, running engineering lunch-and-learns, or mentoring with Canada Learning Code. I am often involved in onboarding new teammates and providing detailed, constructive code reviews.

Outside of work, I recently completed the Toronto Marathon (May 2026) after completing the half marathon last year. I enjoy the systems side of running: structured, iterative, and long-term. Catch me at the local run club!

I am based in Toronto and open to remote opportunities across time zones.

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“I stay rooted in the local tech scene through volunteer mentorship, and contributing to the conversations that move our industry forward.”

Natalie Famula speaking on a panel at Tech Tank 2023

Origin story

An unconventional path into engineering

I studied Linguistics (BA) and worked as a Communication Disorders Assistant before moving into tech. During a travel break, I started a small WordPress blog just for fun, and that turned into a lot of late nights figuring things out, debugging layouts in airport terminals between flights, often while trying to understand why everything was breaking. That curiosity eventually led me to Lighthouse Labs in 2016, and I've been working as a developer ever since.

That background still informs how I approach engineering work. I like understanding how systems fit together, not just how to use them, and I tend to gravitate toward problems where clarity and structure matter.

I'm currently completing a DevOps certificate at the University of Toronto, continuing to deepen my understanding of system design and reliability.

If you want to connect, work together, or are working on something interesting, I'd love to hear from you.

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