Summary
Sara D is a software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building privacy-first systems and developer-focused products from startup to scale. She led multi-year rewrites and built the Privacy Center and DSAR tooling at Uber, reducing code complexity and delivering over $100M in annual operational savings while improving feature velocity. An educator and mentor, she teaches design patterns and system architecture at Harvard Extension School and has coached hundreds of engineers through Outco and Okta support programs. Technically fluent in OAuth, SCIM, OIDC and modern JS stacks, she pairs hands-on engineering with policy-minded privacy engineering and compliance expertise (GDPR/CCPA). Based in San Francisco, she now co-leads a stealth startup while pursuing a master's in computer software engineering, blending product intuition with a knack for turning complex security requirements into practical developer tools.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Information Systems at Georgetown College
Extension studies - Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Extension studies - Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Harvard University
Persian, English