Sarah V.

Senior Software Engineer

United States14 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led major initiatives at GitHub Sponsors.
Significant contributor to GraphQL API enhancements.
Mentored engineers and improved team productivity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong backend and API development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

GraphqlSoftware DevelopmentRuby On RailsDrupalC#

Other Skills

Code ReviewSQLJavaRubyUser Interface DesignSpring MVCPythonMentoringPair ProgrammingSQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)TypeScriptReact.jsWeb DesignProgrammingPHP

Experience

14 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Github

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Remote from Nashville, Tennessee · Remote

Architected, executed, and supported several major initiatives in GitHub Sponsors, such as one-time sponsorships, Explore Sponsors, fraud detection, concurrent sponsorships, and custom amounts
Mentored fellow engineers through 1:1s, code review, and pair programming
Helped deliver major features, including Discussions, branch renaming, repository templates, Lists, Marketplace, user statuses, repository topics, and pinned repositories
Major contributor to the GraphQL API, adding new types and mutations to improve parity with web site functionality
Improved performance of existing features through SQL tuning, caching, removal of n+1 queries, and changing data structure
Served as team anchor and tech lead for GitHub Sponsors, guiding team focus and technical strategy
Wrote posts and gave presentations about developer productivity and code review
Contributed to open source, including Rails and the primer_view_components Ruby gem
Worked on internal tools to reduce friction for other developers, such as chatops for deployment and text alerts about your deploy queue position

Code ReviewSQLGraphQLJavaRubyC#+2

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2018 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs · Remote from Nashville, Tennessee · Remote

Code ReviewRuby on Rails

Application Engineer

Feb 2016 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs · Remote from Nashville, Tennessee · Remote

Code ReviewRuby on Rails

Cirrusmio

software developer

Oct 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Lexington, KY · Hybrid

I developed features, fixed bugs, and wrote tests for our Ruby on Rails applications.

Code ReviewRuby on Rails

Sis

software engineer on the Mobility and UX Team

Sep 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr · Lexington, KY · On-site

I did custom portlet development for WebSphere Portal as well as web development with Drupal and WordPress. I developed web applications that worked on mobile devices, using HTML5 local storage and JavaScript.

DrupalSpring MVC

Hp

Developer

May 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Lexington, Kentucky, United States · On-site

Enhanced and maintained C# web service
Added features to a Python web app, including designing a Boolean query parser for internal search
Added hundreds of unit tests to previously untested C# applications

C#Python