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# Lara Louka

**Headline:** Professional profile
**Location:** Montreal, QC, CAN

## About

Lara Louka has an engineering foundation with experience in frontend development, UX design, and team leadership. She is particularly strong at combining hands-on product work with coordination responsibilities, including leading user-experience work while helping a multidisciplinary team stay aligned. Lara built the Game On platform, a community sports platform designed to organize sports leagues, as a capstone project. She led a team of eight people, ran daily stand-ups, and managed weekly meetings to support accountability and progress throughout the project. Lara owned frontend execution and led UX design for the team project, bringing both technical and user-centered perspectives to the work. She is comfortable taking on leadership responsibilities as well as contributing directly to implementation. Lara is exploring cybersecurity opportunities with a flexible, curious mindset and is especially enthusiastic about security operations and analysis. While she does not yet have direct security experience, her engineering background, collaborative leadership, and interest in security provide a foundation for entering the field.

## Highlights

- Built the Game On community sports platform to organize sports leagues as a capstone project.
- Led an eight-person team on the Game On project.
- Managed daily stand-ups to support team accountability and alignment.
- Managed weekly team meetings during the project.
- Owned frontend execution for a team project.
- Led UX design for a team project.
- Brings experience in frontend development and user-experience design.
- Combines hands-on engineering work with team leadership responsibilities.
- Is exploring cybersecurity opportunities with particular interest in security operations and analysis.

## FAQ

### What does Lara do?

Lara Louka has an engineering foundation and experience in frontend development, UX design, and team leadership. She is exploring cybersecurity opportunities, with particular interest in security operations and analysis.

### What project did Lara build?

Lara built the Game On platform as a capstone project. The platform was created to organize sports leagues and functioned as a community sports platform.

### How has Lara led a team?

Lara led an eight-person team during the Game On project. She managed daily stand-ups and weekly meetings to keep the team aligned, accountable, and progressing.

### What are Lara's frontend and UX strengths?

Lara has frontend development experience and owned frontend execution on her team project. She also led the project’s user-experience work.

### How does Lara balance leadership and hands-on work?

Lara is comfortable balancing leadership with hands-on contribution. She has led team coordination while also taking responsibility for frontend execution and UX design.

### What is Lara's cybersecurity experience and interest?

Lara does not yet have direct security experience. She has an engineering foundation, is open and curious about cybersecurity opportunities, and is especially enthusiastic about security operations and analysis.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-louka

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