Sarah Duncan
Principal Software Engineer at Brooklyn College
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Duncan is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience applying data-driven thinking to personalize news experiences at The New York Times, where she now leads the News Product Mission to align technical strategy with product outcomes. Her background as a data engineer and tech lead across personalization and data pipelines gives her a rare blend of infrastructure rigor and product-focused experimentation for delivering reliable, reader-centric features. She mentors junior engineers, teaches introductory programming to high school students at Brooklyn College, and co-leads NYT’s Women+ in Tech task force, reflecting a deep commitment to growing technical talent and improving DE&I. Known for treating engineering like puzzle-solving in service of journalism, she combines collaborative leadership with hands-on execution to scale personalization across millions of readers.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Logic & Computations, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Logic & Computations at Carnegie Mellon UniversityStuyvesant High School
English, French
Github Skills (9)
pipeline5
netlify5
react4
python4
data-science3
data-management3
nextjs3
microservices1
ssg1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sduncan/team_mgmt
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
wtreid/activity1
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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