Sarah Henkens
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Followmy.tv
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Henkens is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems and ML infrastructure at Slack. She leads architectural work for Slack AI LLM inference and has driven cross-org code-health initiatives, a FIPS-compliant GovSlack deployment, and internal Kubernetes-native platforms for AST analysis. Previously a founder and serial lead developer, she blends product instincts with low-level engineering—designing eventual-consistency invite systems and earning multiple patents for Slack Connect and Workspace Invite architecture. Comfortable designing declarative, type-safe initialization systems and large-scale distributed services, she pairs entrepreneurial grit from running followmy.tv with deep hands-on infrastructure expertise.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical and Mechanical Engineering with Information Communication Technology, Bachelor Electrical and Mechanical Engineering with Information Communication Technology at Thomas More University of Applied SciencesBachelor's degree Electro Mechanics, Bachelor's degree Electro Mechanics at Flemish Community
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (200)
annotations10
rancher10
bitnami10
k8s10
relay10
django10
charts10
mypy10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
validation10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
attm2x/m2x-php
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 12 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 1 month
php-libraryphp
sarahhenkens/home-assistant-iocare
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 12 commits in 1 year 5 months
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