Sara Lambert
Sr Research Software Engineer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Lambert is a senior research software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining production-grade systems at the intersection of research and operations, currently driving projects at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. She combines backend Java and Python expertise with containerization (Docker) and front-end skills (AngularJS/JavaScript), bringing pragmatic engineering to complex distributed and high-performance environments. Her background in computer engineering from UIUC underpins a strong focus on performance, testability, and clear technical documentation across long-lived codebases. Previously she modernized legacy systems and supported large-scale billing and provisioning infrastructures, demonstrating an ability to improve readability and operational resilience in mature platforms. Colleagues rely on her for translating research needs into robust, reproducible software and for smoothing the path from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
Github Skills (137)
bitnami10
docker-desktop10
catalog10
charts10
noflo10
helm10
kubernetes10
data-service10
placement10
service-catalog10
vmware10
json-ld10
minikube10
elasticsearch-plugin9
3d-models9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
moleculemaker/novostoic-frontend
Jun 2024 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
cheese-hub/cheesehub
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
CHEESE project website and documentation
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 6 months
project-websitecheese
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