Sarah Nicholson
Software Engineer III at Proofpoint
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Nicholson is a Software Engineer III at Proofpoint with a decade of hands-on experience building secure, full‑stack solutions—from PostgreSQL and Java microservices to React/TypeScript frontends. She focuses on cybersecurity and privacy, having owned multi-tenant features end-to-end and implemented thread-safe notification tooling and email quarantine integrations using EWS and AWS SES. A Cal Poly Software Engineering graduate and former teaching assistant, she pairs practical product delivery with mentoring and a long history of security internships, including work for SPAWAR and Magellan Health. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, Sarah combines curiosity about systems (early work on supercomputing research) with a pragmatic drive to make software safer for users and organizations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoUniversity City High School
Stackoverflow
21reputation
128reached
2answers
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Github Skills (18)
ups8
html6
mozilla6
css6
jquery6
firefox-addon6
pandora6
javascript6
artwork6
swift5
firefox5
browser5
ctf5
music4
privacy3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CPSECapstone/BiggestPig
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:18 reviews, 35 PRs, 66 pushes in 7 months
znjp/shadowCaster-server
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 months
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