Sara Mcallister
Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Mcallister is a systems researcher and soon-to-be assistant professor in computer science with eight years of experience building and modeling distributed, caching, and storage systems. Currently a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google and a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon, her work emphasizes hardware-software co-design and grounding system design in mathematical models to improve efficiency and sustainability across workloads from web to IoT to machine learning. Her research has been recognized with a SOSP Best Paper Award (2021), an NDSEG fellowship, and other honors, reflecting both top-tier publication impact and competitive research funding. She pairs hands-on engineering experience from internships at Microsoft, Facebook, and Yelp with deep academic rigor, and she has a track record of leading small teams and mentoring students. Notably, she balances practical system-building with theoretical analysis, making her research both deployable and provably grounded.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (26)
cache-control8
cpp6
jekyll6
lru6
pluggable6
memory-allocation6
compile-time6
concurrency5
health5
redis5
caching5
in-memory4
scale4
high-performance4
ios2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
saramcallister/saramcallister.github.io
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
nathanljustin/teamwork-analysis
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:46 PRs, 63 pushes, 30 branches in 2 months
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