Summary
Bethany Sprague is a Senior Software Engineer IV with over 16 years of deep domain expertise in geospatial and remote sensing systems, currently focusing on containerized, cloud-native processing pipelines and infrastructure as code. She has a track record of modernizing legacy workflows into autoscaling, cost-efficient platforms across AWS (with experience in Azure, GCP, PCF), and has architected high-throughput imagery processing systems that scale to continent-wide and near-real-time demands. Bethany combines hands-on development in Python, C++, Rust and Go with DevSecOps leadership—building CI/CD, GitLab/Openshift pipelines, and secure hybrid/air-gapped deployments for defense-grade programs. She’s led rapid operational stand-ups, recruiting and managing DSO teams, and driven cross-company tooling improvements (Artifactory, SonarQube) while also delivering novel remote sensing algorithms and time-series change-detection systems. Based in Boulder, she pairs technical rigor with community impact as a founder and organizer in the LGBTQ+ space, bringing rare empathy and organizational leadership to high-pressure engineering environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Aviation Operations, Associate of Science (A.S.) Aviation Operations at Community College of the Air Force
Bachelor of Science (BS) Geographic Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Geographic Information Systems at Fort Hays State University