Sarah Duncan
Manager Of IT Operations
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Duncan is a seasoned UNIX/Linux systems and storage leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience and nine years in management, currently directing IT operations at Harvard University. She specializes in high-availability infrastructure, virtualization, NetApp storage, and automation using tools like Puppet, Git, Capistrano, and Docker to support scientific and research computing. Known for pragmatically reducing downtime—leading projects such as a low-impact data center power cycle and offsite backup initiatives—she combines deep technical troubleshooting with people-oriented leadership. Her background spans enterprise media, biotech, and academia, and she has a track record of saving costs and improving resilience through careful procurement and process redesign. Unusually for an infrastructure manager, she also holds a BA in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Harvard and an MDiv, reflecting a broad intellectual curiosity that informs her collaborative approach.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Engineering and Applied Sciences, BA, Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard UniversityNorthport High SchoolMDiv, Religions of India, Unitarian Universalism, MDiv, Religions of India, Unitarian Universalism at Harvard Divinity School
Spanish, Tamil, English
Github Skills (38)
flask-application9
daemon7
power-management7
python7
ids7
intrusion-detection6
solaris6
linux6
hosts6
security6
monitoring6
authentication6
ips6
anti-bot6
elisp5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/IQSS-slurm-examples
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
hmdc/hmdc-quotas
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
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