Sarah Laplante
Senior IT Consultant at Outline Foundation
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Laplante is a Senior IT Consultant based in Berlin with 13 years of experience designing and delivering privacy-focused networking tools and large-scale web products. She has led engineering work on Outline VPN across Jigsaw, Google, and the Outline Foundation, blending front-end UX improvements with practical internationalization and maintainability fixes. At Google she contributed to projects spanning security and transparency—Censored Planet, Project Shield, and the Google Transparency Report—bringing a safety-first perspective to infrastructure. Her open-source contributions include UI and localization refinements to the well-known Outline client, demonstrating attention to user experience in censorship-resistant tooling. Trained in computer science at Northeastern University, she combines hands-on coding with consultancy skills to guide teams through complex product and privacy challenges. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic approach to refactoring legacy UI patterns and shipping accessible, language-aware interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (12)
html10
polymer10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
localization9
cordova7
ios6
macos6
android6
electron5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Jigsaw-Code/outline-apps
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Outline Client and Manager, developed by Jigsaw. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 19 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sarah focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience within the Outline client application. Their primary contributions involved modifying UI components, adjusting text messages for different languages (Farsi), and refining the layout with conditional rendering. The changes also included refactoring the components to use computed properties and removing outdated uses of hidden attributes.
electronwindowscordovalinuxandroid
ohnorobo/smo
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
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