Sarah Aladetan
Software Engineer at GitHub
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Aladetan is a software engineer at GitHub with a decade of experience building back-end and DevOps tools that help teams ship securely and reliably. A MIT Computer Science and Comparative Media Studies graduate, she has worked across research, product, and developer-experience roles—from prototyping cognitive assistants and multi-party web systems to designing curriculum for startup teams. At GitHub she contributed to the dependency-review GitHub Action, extending its schema and adding fine-grained filtering and fail-condition configuration to surface vulnerable or unallowed dependencies in PRs. Comfortable navigating large codebases and remote collaboration, she combines practical security-focused engineering with a background in human-centered design and education. Based in New York, she brings an unusual blend of media-savvy product thinking and low-level infrastructure work that helps bridge developer ergonomics and safety.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Comparative Media Studies Minor in Music, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Comparative Media Studies Minor in Music at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPark Center Senior High School
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
github-ci10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
typescript-types10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
configuration-management8
security8
dependency-management7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
actions/dependency-review-action
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
A GitHub Action for detecting vulnerable dependencies and invalid licenses in your PRs
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 22 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sarah contributed to the development and maintenance of a GitHub Action designed to detect vulnerabilities and invalid licenses. Their work involved extending the schema to include scope and adding functionality to filter changes based on severity, scope, and allowed vulnerabilities. They also introduced configuration options for defining fail conditions related to scopes and GHSA allowlists, enhancing the action's ability to enforce security policies.
vulnerabledependenciessecuritydetectingprs
sarahkemi/thumos
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
eventsemotionface-movementhipemitting
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