Summary
Sarah Mackey is a DevOps engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience delivering resilient CI/CD and deployment systems across fintech, payments, and embedded devices. She has led architecture and implementation of release processes that bridge software and firmware—integrating GitHub Actions with Foundries Factories to deploy to IoT devices—while driving cross-team improvements to eliminate pipeline bottlenecks. Her background spans backend engineering at scale (PayPal, Venmo) and blockchain/smart-contract work at Element Finance, giving her a rare mix of infrastructure, security-conscious automation, and protocol-level engineering. Sarah has a strong foundation in mathematics and computer science and has shipped production solutions using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Java, and Python. She combines hands-on scripting and tooling with product-minded collaboration, having supported hundreds of engineers in triage and adoption of standard toolchains. Colleagues rely on her to turn complex, multi-component release challenges into repeatable, auditable pipelines that accelerate delivery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at McDaniel College Budapest
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Buena Vista University
High School, High School at Center Point-Urbana High School
English, Spanish