Sarah Lafer
VP Of Engineering at Le Wagon
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Lafer is a VP of Engineering with nine years of hands-on experience evolving from bootcamp teacher to senior engineering leader at Le Wagon, now based in Spain. She blends full-stack Ruby on Rails expertise with people leadership, curriculum design and international teaching—having led cohorts and workshops across Europe and Israel. Sarah contributes to Le Wagon's popular rails-templates repository, improving developer ergonomics by modernizing templates to Bootstrap 5 and refining authentication and UI patterns. Her background in journalism and cultural analysis informs a clear communicator’s approach to product design and engineering pedagogy. Colleagues describe her as a practical, educator-first leader who scales teams by codifying best practices and shipping reproducible developer experiences.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
FullStack Developer, Web Development, FullStack Developer, Web Development at Le WagonMaster of Arts (M.A.), Comparative Cultural Analysis, Master of Arts (M.A.), Comparative Cultural Analysis at University of AmsterdamBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism at University of the Arts London
German, English, French
Github Skills (11)
rails10
bootstrap10
ruby-on-rails10
html9
css9
javascript8
webpacker7
webpack7
simpleform6
yarnpkg5
devise5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lewagon/rails-templates
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Jump start your Rails development with Le Wagon best practices
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily focused on updating and maintaining template files within a Ruby on Rails project. They updated the templates to use Bootstrap 5, including the necessary configuration and dependencies. The user modified various template files like `minimal.rb` and `devise.rb`, including implementing flash messages and navigation bar updates. Additionally, they removed outdated code instructions.
ruby-on-railsjumphamlwagontemplate
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