Sarah Brown
Director Of Engineering at Mux
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Brown is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams at companies like Mux, Transposit, Buoyant, and Twitter. As Director of Engineering at Mux she leads Player and Data Products, blending hands-on technical judgment with organizational design to keep velocity high through inflection points. She has a track record of growing teams, instituting engineering processes (recruiting, reviews, on-call, design docs), and operationalizing services for reliability and security. Comfortable across stacks—from frontend SPAs and TypeScript to backend Scala, Go, and cloud-native infrastructure—she brings pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to product and exec conversations. Known for empathetic mentoring and candid feedback, she repeatedly promotes leaders and steadies teams through reorganizations. Based in San Francisco and Cornell-trained in computer science, she pairs startup grit with proven systems and process fluency.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (96)
cloud-native10
service-discovery10
driver10
linkerd10
service-mesh9
api9
distributed-tracing9
zipkin9
docker9
kubernetes9
database8
controlling8
twitter8
runner8
controller8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
esbie/jasmine-bootstrap
Jan 2012 - Apr 2014
A Jasmine HTML runner that uses Twitter's Bootstrap to look beautiful
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
lookcssjavascriptjasminetwitter
esbie/HMM-POS
Apr 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:14 commits in 11 days
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