Sara Mccutcheon
Senior Software Engineer at Forma
Livermore, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Mccutcheon is a Senior Software Engineer II with over a decade of hands-on experience building user-facing applications, APIs, and DevOps tooling, currently based in Livermore, CA. She has led teams and tech initiatives—most notably guiding the open-source Pantheon Terminus CLI and localizing a React product at Forma—combining backend, frontend, and operational expertise across Node, NestJS, React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL. Sara designs pragmatic systems that prioritize security and privacy (including features to strip sensitive data from logs) and pairs that with strong observability practices using Datadog and Rudderstack. She’s as comfortable shipping automation and infrastructure (Terraform, SendGrid, GCS, AWS Lambda) as she is mentoring engineers and running technical interviews. Motivated by projects that improve people’s lives, she documents and trains thoroughly to ensure long-term maintainability and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Mathematics at San Francisco State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at City College of San Francisco
Japanese, English
Github Skills (12)
command-line-interface10
php10
terminusdb10
back-end-development10
terminal-app10
cli10
command-line10
git9
devops8
security7
phpunit7
composer6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pantheon-systems/terminus
Jun 2015 - Jun 2021
The Pantheon CLI — a standalone utility for performing operations on the Pantheon Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:56 releases, 24 reviews, 873 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Sara primarily focused on improving the Pantheon CLI, Terminus, by addressing output issues related to authentication failures and enhancing the codebase through minor changes and documentation updates. They also added a feature to strip sensitive data from request strings, removing private information before logging it. Furthermore, the user made contributions to the testing framework by moving files into test directories and modifying testing scripts.
terminuswp-clidrushphpstandalone
TeslaDethray/react-resume
May 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:14 PRs, 26 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years
reactjsreact
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