Summary
Sara Masdottir is a software developer based in Stockholm with eight years of experience building full-stack and mobile applications, currently developing healthcare tech at Yazen Health. She has a strong front-end focus with React and React Native, complemented by back-end work in Go, GraphQL, gRPC and Ruby on Rails from roles at Caring.com and Fractal5. Sara pairs product-minded engineering with community building and developer advocacy—experience that spans developer workshops at Microsoft to founding and running Reboot Hack Iceland. Her background also includes hands-on ops and infrastructure work from enterprise IT at Landsbankinn, giving her a pragmatic understanding of production systems. Curious and interdisciplinary, she studied behavioural neuroscience at Columbia for a semester, an uncommon combination that informs her user-centered approach to UX and product decisions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Háskóli Íslands
summer semester, Behavioural Neuroscience and Epistemology, summer semester, Behavioural Neuroscience and Epistemology at Columbia University