Sarah Holden
Engineering Manager at We Need Books
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Holden is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading global SRE and corporate infrastructure teams at Google, and a track record of transforming struggling engineering groups at Facebook, Yahoo and Robert Half into high-performing, reliable organizations. She specializes in large-scale datacenter and endpoint fleet reliability—currently overseeing client and server platforms across 500,000+ endpoints—and excels at designing resilient, cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows) infrastructure and security improvements. Known for rapid team turnarounds, she pairs strategic IT vision with hands-on systems engineering to stabilize services, reduce support load, and boost employee satisfaction. Sarah also brings nonprofit and entrepreneurial experience as a board member of an NGO and founder of a niche travel business, and outside tech she’s a certified bareboat skipper and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor—evidence of a pragmatic leader who thrives in complex, real-world environments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Open Water Scuba Instructor, Scuba Diving, Open Water Scuba Instructor, Scuba Diving at PADIBS, Microbiology, BS, Microbiology at UC Santa BarbaraBishop O'DowdMaster Grad, 2010, Master Grad, 2010 at Rapport Leadership International
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
shopify-cli6
javascript5
html4
oclif4
shopify3
cli2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sarahholden/good_wheat_site
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
Shopify's first source available reference theme, with Online Store 2.0 features and performance built-in.
Contributions:310 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
online-storeecommerceperformancebuilt-inshopify
sarahholden/fundamentals
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:20 PRs, 256 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
wdi
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