Sara Ford
Sr. Developer Relations Engineer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Ford is a senior Developer Relations engineer at Google with 11 years of experience bridging developer communities, product strategy, and hands-on engineering. She builds "how do I" sample apps, writes technical content, and gives talks and demos that translate complex cloud and developer tooling into practical examples. Her background spans product and community leadership roles at GitHub, Guidewire, and multiple positions across Microsoft, giving her deep expertise in developer platforms, open source growth, and developer experience. On GitHub she contributes to GoogleCloudPlatform nodejs-docs-samples, improving serverless samples, testing, and DevOps workflows—showing a commitment to code quality and reproducible demos. Sara holds a master’s in Human Factors and a dual BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, which informs her focus on usable, well-tested developer experiences. She’s equally at home shipping backend integrations and crafting clear technical narratives that help others adopt cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Human Factors, Master's degree Human Factors at San José State UniversityB.S. B.S. Computer Science B.S. Mathematics Minor French, B.S. B.S. Computer Science B.S. Mathematics Minor French at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
gcp10
test-integration10
nodejs10
test-unit10
unit-test10
integration-testing10
cloud-computing9
google-cloud9
slack8
cicd8
pubsub8
imagemagick7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples
May 2022 - May 2022
Node.js samples for Google Cloud Platform products.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 days
Contributions summary:Sara primarily contributed to the development and improvement of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) functions within the repository. They focused on updating samples for various services like ImageMagick, PubSub, GCS, BigQuery, and Slack, often involving the new Functions Framework testing layer. Furthermore, the user's commits demonstrate work on unit and integration testing, indicating a focus on code quality and reliability. The user also appears to have worked on DevOps tasks related to deployment and testing.
googlenode-jsgoogle-cloud-platformcloud-platformnodejs
saraford/train-your-hubot
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 85 commits, 14 pushes in 28 days
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