Sarah Nicholson
Lead Web Developer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSarah Nicholson is a Lead Web Developer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building user-focused full-stack web applications and leading teams to deliver practical, usable solutions. Having transitioned into software from a non-technical background, she brings strong user empathy and a customer-first mindset that guides design and engineering decisions. Her tenure at Microsoft includes contractor and full-time roles spanning development and project management, and she mentors emerging engineers through immersive programs like Lighthouse Labs. Sarah actively experiments with side projects, competitive coding, and new technologies, pairing relentless curiosity with a craft-oriented approach to shipping features. Outside tech she pursues creative pattern making and sewing, a detail-driven hobby that informs her pragmatic and aesthetic sensibilities in UI and product design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at University of Victoria
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (153)
wp-api10
testing10
http10
svg10
web-development10
javascript10
wordpress10
html10
gatsby10
webgl10
vue10
fastest10
documentation10
css10
webpack10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sarahannnicholson/NLP-Fake-News-Challenge
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
newspythonfakenewschallengefake-news
sarahannnicholson/gatsby-starter-netlify-cms
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:297 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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