Summary
Sara Jensen is a DevOps engineer with a decade of experience making complex systems feel frictionless, currently shaping reliability and automation at Jama Software. She blends a QA-first mindset with hands-on skills across Python, Bash, Docker, MySQL, AWS, Kubernetes, and Datadog to ensure tight data integrity and smooth customer experiences for on-prem and cloud deployments. Her background spans support, QA, and developer-facing roles, so she excels at troubleshooting ambiguous production issues and translating them into repeatable fixes and runbooks. She’s passionate about tooling that removes tedium—documenting playbooks and mentoring peers—while quietly enjoying tech-enabled remote wilderness expeditions that reflect her risk-aware curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Sociology / Anthropology & Spanish, BA, Sociology / Anthropology & Spanish at Lake Forest College
Spanish literature and sustainable economics, Spanish literature and sustainable economics at Semester at Sea - University of VA
Creative Writing, Creative Writing at Northwestern University
Certificate of Completion, Java, Javascript, Android App Development, Certificate of Completion, Java, Javascript, Android App Development at Epicodus
English, Spanish