Sarah Johnston is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building backend-focused systems and a strong preference for functional languages such as Clojure and Elixir (also comfortable with Erlang, Haskell, Python, and Go). She has a background spanning fintech trading systems to startups, currently contributing at Lilium after senior roles and contracts at places like Wefarm and 8th Light. A polyglot individual contributor who values mentorship, she seeks to deepen her expertise in distributed systems and DevOps and is open to stepping into a tech lead role given the right support. Committed to tech-for-good and inclusive teams, she prioritises workplaces with a genuine diversity mindset and enjoys picking up new technologies to solve pragmatic problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
1st BSc, Maths and Computer Science, 1st BSc, Maths and Computer Science at Kings College London
Contributions:1 release, 64 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 months
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Sarah Johnston - Senior Software Engineer at Lilium