Sara Dickinson
Traffic And Office Manager at Amplify
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Dickinson is a seasoned Traffic and Office Manager based in Sydney with 14 years of experience optimising creative operations and resource workflows across agencies and major clients like Samsung, Ferrari and L’Oreal. She combines hands-on traffic management with strategic resource planning, consistently delivering projects ranging from $150k to $4M in fast-paced, high-stakes environments. Comfortable bridging client service, production and senior leadership, she’s known for implementing processes that reduce friction and keep creatives focused on output. Unusually for someone in creative operations, Sara also has technical open-source experience contributing to secure DNS tooling (getdns/stubby and getdns), bringing a practical understanding of back-end and security concerns to cross-functional teams. Her background in print and production gives her a rare end-to-end view of creative delivery, from initial briefs to distribution. Agile, collaborative and detail-focused, she excels at aligning resources to business goals while navigating shifting priorities.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Graphic Arts, BA (Hons) Graphic Arts at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (18)
tls1210
configuration-management10
c1110
tls1310
networking10
security10
c1710
mtls10
dns10
openssl10
libtls10
cryptography9
tcp9
yaml9
command-line-interface8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
getdnsapi/stubby
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Stubby is the name given to a mode of using getdns which enables it to act as a local DNS Privacy stub resolver (using DNS-over-TLS).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 162 commits, 103 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sara primarily contributed to the `stubby` DNS privacy stub resolver project by implementing new features and improving the configuration process. Their work included adding options to the command-line interface, debugging config file handling, and switching the configuration file format to YAML. In addition, the user updated the README documentation and made changes to the Windows installer package. This indicates a combined effort to refine the application's functionality and improve the user experience.
dns-over-tlsactstubdnsprivacy
getdnsapi/getdns
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
A modern asynchronous DNS API https://getdnsapi.net/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:212 commits, 81 PRs, 29 pushes in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sara primarily worked on implementing TLS and STARTTLS support within the getdns API, focusing on secure communication protocols. Their contributions involved adding support for TLS session resumption, and the verification of server certificates for hostname and pubkey-pinning. They also added code to handle different transport methods with appropriate error handling for each case. Furthermore, the developer made code changes to handle and incorporate the OpenSSL certificates from the Windows OS certificate store into the API's security configuration.
apiasynchronousdnsdns-apigetdnsapi
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