Sarah Hodne
Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI
Ireland
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Top SchoolSarah Hodne is a Staff Software Engineer based in Ireland with 17 years of experience building reliable, scalable CI/CD and infrastructure systems. She has deep SRE and DevOps expertise from roles at Google and CircleCI and a long history at Travis CI where she contributed across front-end, back-end, build tooling, and cookbooks—helping improve build performance, developer UX, and deployment workflows. Comfortable across the stack, she has shipped UI polish for Ember-based apps, enhanced CLI and API tooling, and implemented build caching and Docker integrations that reduce iteration time. A pragmatic engineer and technical writer, she balances production-grade engineering with clear documentation and has contributed notable fixes and features to widely used open-source projects like Travis CI and ReactiveCocoa. Notably, she blends hands-on mobile and frontend work with low-level build and ops automation—an uncommon combination that helps bridge product UX and platform reliability.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of OsloUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (65)
github10
command-line-interface10
bash10
ruby10
reactivecocoa10
emberjs10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
ember10
rest-api10
markdown10
javascript10
dockers10
front-end-development10
pipeline10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
travis-ci/travis-web
Apr 2013 - Aug 2016
The Ember web client for Travis CI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 3 PRs, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Travis CI web client. They made several changes related to the application's styling using Sass, including updating ANSI log colors and fixing bold ANSI colors. Additionally, the user implemented UI enhancements by adding a GitHub mark to GitHub links and modifying the shadow of the "Follow logs" button. They also addressed a typo in a template and updated the application to download 2x images from Gravatar for better display on Retina screens.
ember-addonjavascriptweb-clientemberjstravis
travis-ci/travis-ci
Jan 2012 - Sep 2014
Free continuous integration platform for GitHub projects.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 39 comments, 13 issues in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily focused on enhancing the mobile user interface for the Travis CI platform. Their commits include significant changes to the mobile layout, specifically targeting the iPhone. These changes involve updates to JavaScript, including the integration of jQuery Mobile and modifications to the Ember.js application, which included incorporating new handlebars templates for rendering the content.
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