Sarah Hudspeth
Principal Professional Services Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Hudspeth is a Principal Professional Services Engineer in the Bay Area with eight years of hands-on experience blending data science, software engineering, and solutions architecture. A self-taught data scientist and former math teacher, she leverages Python, pandas, SQL, ML, and data visualization to turn complex data into actionable product insights and customer-facing solutions. Her background in classroom differentiation and curriculum design informs a user-centric approach to technical onboarding and enablement, helping teams and clients adopt tools with clear learning pathways. She has moved from teaching and founding a local giving platform to senior roles at Chronosphere and New Relic, and now drives professional services at Palo Alto Networks. Fluent in French and an MFA-trained writer, she brings strong communication, storytelling, and pedagogical instincts to technical strategy and documentation.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Creative Writing, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Creative Writing at Seattle Pacific UniversitySoftware Engineering Fullstack Engineering, Software Engineering Fullstack Engineering at Hackbright AcademyContinuing Education Courses for NC Teaching Licensure, Continuing Education Courses for NC Teaching Licensure at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMaster's in Teaching Secondary Education and Foreign Language Instruction, Master's in Teaching Secondary Education and Foreign Language Instruction at University of VirginiaGovernor's Dipolma, Governor's Dipolma at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyIntro to Data Analysis, Intro to Data Analysis at Codecademy
English, French
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Github Skills (19)
carbon-emissions9
shelve9
sustainability8
climate-change8
backlog6
newrelic6
data-visualization5
asciidoc5
javascript5
recommendation-engine4
recommender3
documentation3
amazon3
machine-learning2
recommendation-system2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shhudspeth/BookRecommendationSystem
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
This recommendation system uses Book review data from Amazon and showcases different recommender techniques
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 months
techniquesrecommendershowcasesamazonrecommendation
shhudspeth/hb-project-shelve-it
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Shelve-It is a virtual bookshelf that will help you keep track of your reading list(s).
Contributions:94 commits, 17 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 10 months
javascriptkeepshelve
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