Sarah Michaelson
Senior Software Engineer at Fountain
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Michaelson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Denver with 12 years of experience building and modernizing production systems across C#/.NET, Java/Kotlin/Spring, Ruby on Rails, and modern front-end frameworks on AWS, GCP, Azure, and vSphere. A practitioner and teacher of Agile and test-driven development, she has consulted for federal programs, healthcare startups, and major retailers to reduce waste, improve accuracy, and increase accessibility. At companies from Pivotal Labs to Stripe and Fountain she has led end-to-end delivery, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes while coaching teams on inclusive hiring and DEI best practices. She blends hands-on engineering with developer tooling and CI/CD expertise—having reduced test suite times and automated build pipelines—to help teams ship more reliably. Equally comfortable mentoring newcomers and presenting to Fortune 500 clients, she brings a rare mix of empathy, pedagogy, and technical breadth cultivated by a background that spans experiential marketing, nutrition education, and rigorous bootcamp training.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The Wheatley SchoolAssociate of Science, Liberal Arts, Mathematics and Sciences, Associate of Science, Liberal Arts, Mathematics and Sciences at Nassau Community CollegeNew York UniversityRuby on Rails/JavaScript, Ruby on Rails/JavaScript at App AcademyBachelor of Science, Nutrtion Science, Pre-medicine, Bachelor of Science, Nutrtion Science, Pre-medicine at Purdue University
Github Skills (80)
concourse9
darwin9
angular8
scale8
elm8
continuous-delivery8
cloud-foundry8
javascript8
bootloader8
automation8
infrastructure8
chef-infra8
react8
director8
bosh8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
skmichaelson/chef
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:10 pushes in 25 days
configurationdevopsconfiguration-managementansibleinfrastructure
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