Sarah Colquhoun
Software Engineer at Waymo
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Colquhoun is an infrastructure-focused software engineer with eight years’ experience building reliable systems at scale, currently working on infrastructure at Waymo after four years as a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. She pairs strong academic foundations—a Master’s in Computer Science from University of Toronto and a BASc in Mathematics and Engineering—with practical SRE and research experience in social networks and game-theoretic algorithms. Comfortable in production environments, she has applied her analytical background to operational roles and rapid-response projects such as a Google.org fellowship at Carnegie Mellon on CovidCast. Bilingual guide experience and mentoring roles earlier in her career hint at strong communication and cross-cultural collaboration skills that complement her technical work. Based in Pittsburgh, she brings a research-minded approach to infrastructure engineering, particularly in understanding complex systems and community behaviors.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.87/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.87/4.0 at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mathematics and Engineering, 3.85/4.3, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mathematics and Engineering, 3.85/4.3 at Queen's University
English, French, Swedish
Github Skills (12)
effort9
delphi9
python7
api5
docker4
nodejs4
fips2
r-package2
geodata2
forecasts2
ckan1
r1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sarah-colq/covidcast
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Public-facing documents and tools supporting Delphi's COVIDcast effort.
Contributions:36 PRs, 110 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
effortsupportingdelphicovidcast
sarah-colq/covidcast-nowcast
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Nowcasting efforts for SARS-Cov2
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 months
nowcastingsars
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