Ethan Sarp
Backend Product Software Engineer at Dropbox
Arlington, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Sarp is a Backend Product Software Engineer with 13 years in software and seven years of remote development, currently building backend product features at Dropbox from Arlington, Texas. He combines strong application development, database design, and server management skills with hands-on agile delivery experience honed across roles at Community Brands and UT Arlington. Ethan is comfortable spanning the stack—shipping backend services while contributing meaningful UI/UX improvements in open source, notably to the popular RuneLite Old School RuneScape client. He has a pragmatic engineering mindset illustrated by building a CMS early in his career to streamline university web operations and by refining product behavior for diverse user types. Colleagues rely on him for steady, production-focused execution and thoughtful trade-offs between product needs and system reliability. His BS in Computer Software Engineering (3.5 GPA) underpins a disciplined approach to scalable, user-centered backend systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, 3.5, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, 3.5 at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (6)
javas10
rs10
java10
game-development9
configuration-management9
user-interface9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
runelite/runelite
May 2018 - Oct 2021
Open source Old School RuneScape client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 38 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the RuneLite client, a Java-based open-source client for Old School RuneScape. Their work included implementing new features like adding fishing spots, refining existing functionality by excluding ironmen from certain notifications, and updating menu swapper configurations. They also worked on the UI, such as capitalizing configuration names in the world map, and overall, made improvements to the client's user experience.
old-schooldotnetrunescapeosrsold-school-runescape
shmeeps/runelite
May 2018 - Oct 2021
Open source Old School RuneScape client
Contributions:76 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 5 months
old-schoolrunescape-clientold-school-runescaperunescape
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