Sarah Boyce
Django Fellow at Django Software Foundation
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Boyce is a Django-focused backend engineer with seven years of experience who currently serves as a Django Fellow, driving maintenance, security triage, release readiness, and mentorship for one of the web’s most widely used frameworks. She combines a mathematician’s rigor (BSc Mathematics, University of Bath) with hands-on product delivery from startups to enterprise, having owned full development cycles and shipped daily at companies like CheMondis and Quick Release. An active open-source contributor, she has fixed release blockers and subtle model/query bugs in the official django repo and improved the djangoproject.com site, demonstrating deep familiarity with Django internals and real-world production issues. Known for a relentless drive to improve systems (and for laughing loudly), she enjoys refactoring and metric-driven progress — and has even applied her "yes" mentality to founding a non-profit training Ugandan refugees in insect farming.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A level Maths Further Maths Art, A level Maths Further Maths Art at Melton Vale Post 16 CentreBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics at University of Bath
Github Skills (15)
testing10
unit-testing10
dependency-management10
test-integration10
orm10
object-mapping10
test-unit10
python10
django10
integration-testing10
database-design9
sql8
html7
javascript5
css5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
django/django
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1834 reviews, 17 commits, 694 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Django web framework. Their commits focused on resolving issues related to model operations, including `AlterField` behavior with choices, handling `GenericForeignKey` with unsaved objects, and correctly managing `update_or_create()` operations in the presence of multi-table inheritance and pre-save hooks. The user also added tests for QuerySet methods, which improves overall code coverage.
pythondjango-frameworkappsdjangoframework
django/djangoproject.com
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Source code to djangoproject.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 29 PRs, 104 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to upgrading and integrating dependencies, including django-contact-form, django-recaptcha, and django-money, indicating a focus on maintaining and improving the functionality of the Django project. Their work involved modifying settings files, forms, and templates to accommodate the updates, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's underlying architecture and dependencies. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to user profile statistics and mobile navigation, highlighting contributions to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the project.
djangoxadminpythondjangoproject
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