Lauren Tan builds Grok Bot and Cursor at SpaceXAI and contributes to React Compiler. Previously, she worked at Cursor and spent six years at Meta as a staff engineer and engineering manager on React. Her work included React Server Components, Relay support, and the compiler that automatically optimizes React applications. She coauthored the React Compiler 1.0 announcement in 2025. Before Meta, she led engineering and managed UI teams at Netflix, following web development work at DockYard. She studied finance at Monash University and cofounded The Price Geek before moving into software engineering. Her open-source projects include Hiring Without Whiteboards, a directory of employers using alternatives to traditional whiteboard interviews, and Noodle, a tool for orchestrating coding agents.