Sarah Guthals
Developer Advocate
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Guthals is a developer advocate and seasoned tech leader with 14+ years bridging engineering, education, and developer relations at companies including Meta, Microsoft, GitHub, and Sentry. She’s co‑founded and led product and engineering teams at ThoughtSTEM to build kid-friendly coding platforms and later founded We Can Zone to promote creative making and collaboration. With a PhD in Computer Science Education from UCSD, she combines research-backed pedagogy and hands-on product work—she even prototyped a child‑friendly GitHub and helped develop AP CS Principles teacher training. Known for translating complex ML, data, and developer tooling into approachable content, she has driven millions of views on educational modules and led global DevRel programs and student initiatives. Practical, curious, and audience-first, she blends academic rigor with startup grit to improve developer and learner experiences across tools and platforms.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
python6
Github contributions (1)
srfoster/CodeSpells-Old
May 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:105 commits in 1 year 5 months
pythonspellsmagiccraftingmagic-spells
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