Sandra Youssef
Civil Engineering Specialist - Assistant I at Seattle Public Utilities
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandra Youssef is a civil and environmental engineer turned technical writer and content manager who blends five years of cross-sector experience in water infrastructure, documentation, and community outreach. Currently at Seattle Public Utilities, she curates and preserves historic and modern engineering records for a public digital repository while performing CAD drafting and supporting engineers, surveyors and the public. With a Master’s in Environmental Engineering, technical-writing credentials and AutoCAD teaching experience, she has authored large operational manuals and EPA-guideline–level documentation and contributed technical docs and video demos to the prominent Flyte open-source workflow project. Sandra pairs field-focused engineering rigor with digital content skills—having managed marketing, newsletters and community engagement for an ML/AI startup and supported virtual UX conferences—plus a decade of local youth program leadership that sharpens her stakeholder and outreach abilities. An avid traveler and print-book lover, she brings a rare combination of archival stewardship, practical engineering know-how, and clear technical communication to missions that protect water and the environment.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate UX and Visual Interface Design, Certificate UX and Visual Interface Design at University of WashingtonThe University of MelbourneBSc Construction Engineering, BSc Construction Engineering at The American University in Cairo
Github Skills (8)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
community-management6
python3
kubernetes3
golang3
kubernetes-pods3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
flyteorg/flyte
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Scalable and flexible workflow orchestration platform that seamlessly unifies data, ML and analytics stacks.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:57 reviews, 99 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sandra primarily contributed to the documentation of the Flyte platform by updating existing documentation files and adding new video demos. Their work involved refining the text for clarity, correcting grammar and spelling errors, and improving the overall structure and organization of the documentation, as evidenced by edits to multiple `rst` files and the addition of video embeds. The user's contributions focused on various aspects of the documentation, including getting started guides, deployment instructions, and community information.
pythondatamission-criticalgrpcproduction-grade
samhita-alla/flyte
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Accelerate your ML and Data workflows to production. Flyte is a production grade orchestration system for your Data and ML workloads. It has been battle tested at Lyft, Spotify, freenome and others and truly open-source.
Contributions:1 push, 6 comments in 6 months
pythonproduction-gradeawsproductionorchestration
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