Sarah Kirk
Software Engineer, Site Reliability at Zendesk
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Kirk is a Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building reliability, automation, and chaos engineering practices, currently driving SRE work at Zendesk from Portland, Oregon. She has a background spanning QA, customer engineering, and full-stack API work—helping teams ship safer releases, automate operational toil, and improve observability. At Airship she maintained a high-profile Ruby client with over a million downloads and led tooling and incident-response improvements that scaled across teams. Comfortable translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, she has a track record of mentoring peers and introducing engineering rituals that boost collaboration. Outside of work she blends creative and athletic pursuits—she identifies as an artist and cyclist—which informs a pragmatic, human-centered approach to reliability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Applied Business, Geophysics, Certificate in Applied Business, Geophysics at University of Colorado Boulder
English, French, spainish
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Github Skills (12)
ruby-wrapper10
api10
ruby9
capstone8
python6
push-notifications6
san3
python-client3
client-library3
node-client1
tasty1
nodejs1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
urbanairship/ruby-library
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
A Ruby wrapper for the Urban Airship API.
Contributions:3 reviews, 337 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years
ruby-wrapperapirubyairshipurban
sarahdactyl71/gneiss-rocks
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Capstone Project for Turing
Contributions:53 PRs, 181 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
capstoneturing
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