Summary
Sarah O'connor is a versatile tech professional blending a Computer Science and Philosophy background from the University of Rochester with 11 years of practical experience across web development, infosec, and AI-adjacent work. She currently tutors LSATs while working as a prompt engineer—crafting and vetting LLM prompts, performing fact checks, and producing code snippets—bringing humanities-informed rigor to technical testing. As an early team member at a logistics SaaS startup she helped shape product and web architecture, and her past IT systems analyst roles include security strategy and PCI DSS implementation. Comfortable teaching and mentoring, she has served as a CS TA and workshop leader, translating complex concepts into accessible learning. Based in New York, she’s exploring functional and lower-level programming and applies a political economy lens to technology decisions, signaling a thoughtful, interdisciplinary approach to engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
Diploma Programme, Diploma Programme at International Baccalaureate
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Rochester
English, Spanish