Sara S.

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led migration to cloud-native CI/CD at ThoughtWorks.
Managed Infrastructure team at Strava for reliable systems.
Expertise in biotechnology and healthcare technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Infrastructure expert with a focus on developer experience and performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

JavaReactAWSNodeJavaScriptAzureMolecular & Cellular BiologyPythonC++SMLSpanishChineseAssistant TeachingMicrosoft OfficePowerPoint

About

If requesting to connect, please include a note on how we know each other or how we may be able to work together. I am the EM for the Build and Code Platform team at Reddit. My team owns continuous integration, builds, source control, code review, code search, and a subset of other internal developer tools. We partner with teams such as Deploy Infra and Compute to serve all the developers at Reddit and to reduce toil in the SDLC. Prior to Reddit, I spent 5 years at Strava where I wrote code for and later managed the Infrastructure team under the Foundation Engineering. My team worked on the systems and services that enabled Strava to be reliable and performant, and tools to support every engineer at Strava. We owned compute, orchestration, datastores, networking, observability, continuous integration, developer and deployment tools, and more. Given my background in biology and computer science, I am particularly interested in biotechnology, healthcare, STEM education, and climate tech, and welcome conversations about opportunities in those areas.

Experience

10 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

Reddit, inc.

Engineering Manager, Release Infrastructure (Developer Experience)

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Career break

Health and well-being

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 · 8 mos

Strava

4 roles

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

Engineering Lead and Manager, Foundation

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos

Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Thoughtworks

Consultant Software Developer

Aug 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Led migration from on-prem Jenkins to cloud-native TeamCity for an application performance monitoring company. Empowered teams to own their own build pipelines. Orchestrated workers on Mesos/Marathon in AWS.
Optimized performance and SEO of an e-commerce platform for clothing retailer using React, Azure, and CloudFoundry.
Developed company portal for performance reviews and employee management using Node, JavaScript, and React

JavaReactAWSNodeJavaScriptSoftware Development+1

Pomona college department of biology

Lab Teaching Assistant

Sep 2015 – May 2016 · 8 mos

Mentored Introductory Genetics and Introductory Cellular Chemistry and Cellular Biology laboratory sessions on a weekly basis.
Taught course material and standard laboratory procedures, mentored students, and aided in preparing laboratory reports.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Improved the seller experience on the Fulfillment by Amazon team.
Full stack development and testing in Java, Perl Mason, JavaScript, and HTML.
Working with frameworks including backbone.js, Spring, Mockito, AWS, and other internal Amazon frameworks.

Pomona college department of biology

2 roles

Fundamentals of Computer Science Teaching Assistant

Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3 mos

• Mentored CS52 students with coursework involving functional programming, assembly language, bits and logic, and computational theory

Research Assistant

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo

Awarded a Pomona College Summer Undergraduate Research Project (SURP) under Professor Edward Crane.
Responsible for isolating, purifying, and amplifying the 16S gene of anaerobic microbes from the mud volcanoes of the Salton Sea.
Identified several previously undiscovered microbes.

Harvey mudd college department of biology

Research Assistant

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos

Awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Summer Undergraduate Research Project (SURP) under Professor Catherine McFadden.
Responsible for extracting, isolating, purifying and amplifying the 28S rDNA gene, mitochondrial mutS gene, and the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene of Taiwanese soft corals in the family Xeniidae.
Sequenced each gene and analyzed these sequences against previously compiled phylogenetic trees to identify new species and their closest related relatives.