Sarah Gibson
Senior Platform Engineer
Corby, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Gibson is a Senior Platform Engineer with seven years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure that accelerates reproducible, data-driven research and education. She combines hands-on Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD expertise with a track record of operating public and private BinderHub/JupyterHub platforms at scale, and was recognised as a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor. Sarah has led cross-functional infrastructure teams (co-leading The Turing Way working group) and secured grants to expand shared research compute, showing she balances technical delivery with strategic program work. Her open-source contributions include improving BinderHub and zero-to-jupyterhub-k8s documentation and automation, reflecting a talent for turning complex deployment patterns into clear, repeatable workflows. Based in Corby, UK, she thrives on interdisciplinary collaboration—translating researcher needs into robust, reproducible systems that make advanced tools broadly accessible.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Newland School for GirlsMPhys Astrophysics, MPhys Astrophysics at University of HullDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astrophysics at University of LeicesterA Level Physics, A Level Physics at Wyke Sixth Form College
German
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
docker10
jupyterhub10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
azure-container-registry10
azure-acr10
documentation10
github9
yaml9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
the-turing-way/the-turing-way
Nov 2018 - Nov 2022
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:181 reviews, 800 commits, 229 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Sarah focused on automating the setup and configuration of BinderHub within the repository's workshops. Their contributions included creating a setup script to add secrets to template YAML files, modifying existing scripts, and removing unnecessary variables. They also made changes related to the book's website, including upgrading jupyter-book and refactoring the content structure to better serve the user.
how-to-guidesciencehut23-270hostdata-science
jupyterhub/binderhub
Mar 2019 - Feb 2022
Run your code in the cloud, with technology so advanced, it feels like magic!
Role in this project:Technical Writer & DevOps Engineer
Technical Writer & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 66 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to improving the documentation of the BinderHub project, focusing on setup and configuration. Their work involved clarifying installation steps, correcting configuration examples, and adding Azure Container Registry setup instructions. Additionally, the user addressed a build failure by adding a newline to a file and made changes to the codebase related to the registry and GitHub repository.
jupyter-notebookmagicjupyterbinderjupyterhub
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