LB
Legal → Backend
Contracts manager automating the clause review she used to do manually
Contracts manager automating the clause review she used to do manually
Verified Domain Engineer (Beta)
Engineering Depth 2/5
Pivot Story
“I spent years marking up contracts with the same twenty comments. Once I built a script that did it automatically, I realized I liked the scripting more than the contracts.”
Government
Legal
The Past
Jan 2011 - Jun 2019 (8 years 5 months)
Contracts Manager
Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated vendor and licensing agreements. Managed a contract portfolio of 800+ active agreements with a combined annual value over 50M.
The Now
Jan 2020 - Present (6 years 3 months)
Backend Engineer
Automating contract review with NLP-based clause extraction and risk flagging. Python, spaCy, and FastAPI. Processing 500 contracts per week for a mid-size law firm.
About
Drafted and negotiated hundreds of vendor contracts. Saw how much legal review was rote pattern-matching and started automating it. Never looked back.
Domain Signals
Domain Focus
Legal
Tech Focus
Backend
Engineering Depth
Level 2/5
Self-rated hands-on software depth.