Lorena Tacal
About Lorena Tacal
Lorena Tacal is a software engineer at Starling Bank, where she has worked since 2019. She has a background in personal training and sports studies, along with extensive experience in full stack development and feature enhancement.
Current Role at Starling Bank
Lorena Tacal has been working at Starling Bank as a Software Engineer since 2019. In her role, she has contributed to various projects, including the automation of a Payment Limit feature that reduced processing time by one minute per application. She has also enhanced the Cheques feature to manage increased load during the Covid pandemic and built new features such as Disputes and Chargebacks in a React monolith application. Additionally, she has taken on the role of front-end expert, overseeing PR reviews and assisting colleagues with front-end tasks.
Education and Expertise
Lorena Tacal has a diverse educational background in software development and sports studies. She studied at Babes-Bolyai University, where she earned a Master's degree in Sport and Performance from 2009 to 2011 and a Bachelor's degree in Sports Studies from 2006 to 2009. In the field of software development, she completed a Full Stack Javascript course at Udemy in 2019 and studied at freeCodeCamp, focusing on CSS, Javascript, and React from 2017 to 2018. Additionally, she achieved a Software Developer qualification at Multiverse from 2019 to 2021.
Previous Experience
Before her current position at Starling Bank, Lorena Tacal worked in various roles. She was a Personal Trainer at Ballymore for seven months in 2016 and served as a Customer Service Assistant at Virgin Active for seven months in the same year. Her experience in personal training includes achieving REPS 3 and REPS 2 certifications through Lifetime Training, where she studied Personal Training and Fitness Instruction.
Projects and Contributions
Lorena Tacal has been involved in several significant projects during her tenure at Starling Bank. She developed a full stack CRUD application as a final project using the MERN stack, which featured a restaurant ordering and table booking system. Furthermore, she collaborated with a back-end colleague to create a screen that renders data from the third-party service, Currency Cloud, utilizing lists, tables, and filters by UUID. Her contributions have had a notable impact on the efficiency and functionality of the bank's software.