Sara Gilford
Beverage Director at Stanley's Wet Goods
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Gilford is a Wine Spectator award-winning Beverage Director in Los Angeles with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending hospitality leadership, product thinking, and data-informed revenue growth. At Stanley's Wet Goods she runs retail buying, low-ABV cocktail programming, and private events execution while managing a lean service team; previously she scaled bottle-by-the-glass sales by 125% and maintained an 800+ bottle cellar at Michelin-recognized Fellow. Her background includes founding a natural wine subscription, training front-of-house teams with regular education programs, and managing high-profile retail accounts, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and operational discipline. Earlier roles in software and product at Sentry and Science Exchange show she speaks the language of data and documentation—she contributed technical docs for Sentry and built BI and pricing systems as an engineer and PM. That uncommon mix of hospitality instincts and product/data experience enables her to drive measurable topline gains through staff education, process improvements, and targeted offerings. Based in LA, she pairs deep wine knowledge (including formal winemaking coursework) with a proven ability to translate customer insights into profitable programs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Wine and Winemaking, Wine and Winemaking at UC Davis Continuing and Professional EducationBachelor of Arts (B.A.) American Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) American Studies at Barnard College
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-docs
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 25 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sara focused on documenting various features and aspects of the Sentry platform. Their contributions primarily involved adding and updating documentation related to environments, issue owners, and the overall structure of the documentation. They modified existing documentation pages, added new ones, and integrated them into the sidebar and index, enhancing the user's ability to understand and use Sentry. These updates improve usability and aid users in configuring the platform.
gatsbysentry-documentationgatsbyjssentrytag-production
saragilford/abode_well_2.0
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:70 PRs, 93 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
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