Sara Cope
Lead Software Engineer at Heroku
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarSara Cope is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of front-end and full-stack experience, currently leading frontend efforts at Heroku from Dayton, Ohio. She specializes in accessible, maintainable web interfaces and build pipelines, having improved release automation and modernized gulp/sass workflows for widely used projects like the U.S. Web Design System. Previously she led engineering and product work for Digital.gov and served in multiple federal tech roles, bringing deep experience in public-sector web platforms and civic-minded open source. Sara is known for championing transparency, diversity, and practical accessibility, and she combines hands-on coding with release engineering and cross-team leadership to ship reliable, easy-to-maintain sites.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
css10
sass10
gulp10
front-end-development10
build-automation10
html10
web-development10
google-sites10
accessibility9
guideline9
automation9
automations9
system8
e-government4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
GSA/digitalgov.gov
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Digital.gov: Better websites. Better government.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 1116 commits, 827 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sara primarily focused on front-end development and also made some back-end adjustments. Their work involved merging branches to integrate changes related to features such as posts to news, accessibility fixes, optimizing builds, author name encoding and updating the styling. The user also addressed CSS path errors and added a new shortcode. These changes were made to address feature requests and improve site structure and design.
policygovcivic-techstandardsdigital-services
uswds/uswds
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:1 release, 43 commits, 24 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sara focused on updating the build and release process for the project. They made changes to the gulp configuration, including removing deprecated dependencies like `gulp-clean` and `gulp-util`, and updated other dependencies like `gulp-filter`. Additionally, the user updated the sass build process and made syntax improvements. These changes appear to be centered on optimizing the build pipeline and dependencies used for the project's build process.
accessibleuswdsfederal-governmentweb-designclarity
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