Sabrina G.

Software Engineer

Raleigh, Durham, United States5 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in full-stack development with a focus on React and Golang.
Proven track record in leading high-impact software projects.
Experienced instructor, enhancing technical skills in software engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused full-stack software engineer with strong leadership and teaching capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringFull-stack DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesDatabase ManagementEngineering ManagementProject ManagementTechnical Training

Other Skills

Ruby on RailsJavaScriptReact.jsNode.jsGolangReactMySQLAgileSCRUMBilling SystemsData MigrationFigmaGitGitHubCI/CD

About

Currently working as a SWE on GitHub Copilot and an instructor at Frontend Masters. Constantly working on new things, teaching and speaking at events, and just generally enjoying the creative sides of software engineering. Recent talks: Vibe Coding - Datadog - DASH panelist Microsoft Early in Career Mentorship - Microsoft/GitHub Panelist How To Document For Open Source Software - Program Equity/GitHub Communication Between Technical/Non-Technical Team Members - GitHub

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Software Engineer

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Software Engineer on GitHub Copilot

Ruby on RailsJavaScriptReact.jsNode.jsSoftware EngineeringFull-Stack Development

Software Engineer

Jun 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Serve as a technical lead on high-impact projects, handling over $1 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) with a focus on maintaining robust and scalable billing systems
Spearheaded the creation of an on-call process for our new Golang service and developed key React-based features including overview, budgets, and usage pages
Orchestrated a critical data migration and system transition involving Microsoft and GitHub support plans within a MySQL database, embedding complex ERB logic
Attained Certified Scrum Master status; led the transformation from Waterfall to Agile/SCRUM methodologies, enhancing project documentation and workflow through new issue/PR templates
Led the migration of metered GitHub products to usage buckets, streamlining the billing process and optimizing resource allocation
Developed a new metered billing service using Golang and React, providing customers enhanced insights and control over their billing for GitHub's suite of products
Facilitated team growth and knowledge sharing through retrospectives, architecture hours, and premortem meetings, bolstering team resilience and preparedness
Acted as a key point of contact for cross-team technical queries related to billing, driving feature collaborations that reduced support load and improved system efficiency
Designed and implemented innovative billing features, such as Azure-based payment processing for metered services (Ruby on Rails), discount visibility in billing platforms (Go and React), and revamped internal support plan interfaces (Rails)

GolangReactMySQLAgileSCRUMSoftware Engineering+1

Circalert

VP of Engineering

Jun 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Directed a team of over 10 software engineers from project inception to MVP delivery for a specific client, ensuring alignment with client's operational needs and vision
Designed project workflows and managed the project board, creating and assigning tickets for project epics to maintain clear development objectives and accountability
Led the design process, developed project mockups in Figma, and incorporated client feedback to deliver a user-centric product that adhered to high UX/UI standards
Conducted educational sessions on Git and GitHub best practices, significantly improving team's version control skills and facilitating a collaborative code review culture
Enforced engineering standards across the project, ensuring high-quality code and instituting best practices for pull requests and code reviews among the engineering team
Delegated complex tasks to senior engineers, optimizing team productivity and balancing workload effectively to meet project deadlines and quality benchmarks

FigmaGitGitHubEngineering ManagementProject Management

Monument

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Mar 2022 · 8 mos

Overhauled the patient UI to make registering for support groups seamless using React Hooks, while incorporating new group topic CRUD functionality on the backend utilizing Node.js and Nest.js
Transformed processes including the handling of infrastructure tasks by creating a bi-weekly rotation of engineers dedicated to infra tasks, allowing the team to maintain product needs while minimizing backlog
Instantiated weekly analytics cron jobs, using TypeORM to query a PostgreSQL database, connected Slack, and added formatting to allow C-level management to prioritize metrics not meeting expectations
Utilized various third party APIs to add features to the Monument applications, from Zendesk’s SMS functionality to adding data to Stripe during patient onboarding for tax-paying purposes

React HooksNode.jsPostgreSQLSoftware EngineeringFull-Stack Development

Codesmith

Part-Time Instructor / Content Creator

Dec 2020 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Conducted technical training for engineers in full-stack development principles, including JavaScript fundamentals, data structures, DOM manipulation, client-server architecture, REST API design, and DevOps including CI/CD
Created original video and blog content for CSX, a free online learning platform for prospective students, diving under the hood on basic JavaScript principles
Maintained a custom React YAML content parser that leveraged the factory design pattern to dynamically render static data into React components, enabling an accessible CMS development process for technical and non-technical team members
Implemented Cypress end to end tests in the CI/CD pipeline to ensure intended functionality and prevent unwanted side effects
Conducted onboarding and technical training for engineers in full-stack development principles, including data structures, DOM manipulation, client-server architecture, REST API design, software design patterns such as MVC and Flux, and DevOps including CI/CD
Mentored teams through the complete SDLC of full-stack open-source products, ensuring the use of Agile methodology best practices
Conducted technical interviews focusing on in-depth JavaScript knowledge, technical communication, and debugging skills

JavaScriptReactCI/CDTechnical TrainingFull-Stack Development

Miraql (open source product)

Software Engineer

Dec 2020 – May 2021 · 5 mos

Architected a GraphQL GUI using React that enables users to monitor query performance, record responses and errors, while simultaneously visualizing a user’s schema and query metrics to alleviate concerns of poor app performance
Implemented React Hooks to handle state simply, due to the lack of known input data size to create a user database schema that can contain any number of tables and columns
Leveraged D3.js to exhibit complex data with graphical elements on the DOM based on a schema that can be dynamically updated
Utilized ChakraUI’s ability to generate attractive UI components adhering to WAI-ARIA specification and employed CodeMirror to create a visual text editor that aids developers in entering code within the application, allowing for code snippets to be entered more intuitively and look like a traditional IDE
Developed a Node.js/Express server and an accompanying PostgreSQL database
Created the functionality to dynamically query an API and leveraged React along with Codesmirror to display responses and/or errors
Wrapped MiraQL in an Electron app in a Node.js runtime to give developers the option to download a desktop version of the software

GraphQLReactNode.jsSoftware EngineeringFull-Stack Development