Sarah Panaligan
Information Technology Engineering Manager
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Panaligan is an Information Technology Engineering Manager in Chicagoland with eight years of experience building and leading cloud-native infrastructure teams across AWS and Azure. She currently manages the Infrastructure and Automation Engineering department at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, combining platform engineering, automation (Ansible, Terraform), and orchestration (Kubernetes, ArgoCD) to modernize legacy workloads. A former classroom teacher and adjunct piano faculty, she brings rare pedagogical clarity to mentoring engineers and translating complex technical work for stakeholders. She has hands-on experience refactoring legacy systems into serverless Lambdas and architecting platforms for enterprise AI, and maintains a creative side as a pianist and self-published author. Practical, people-focused, and technically versatile, she blends cloud engineering rigor with a background in education and the arts to drive reliable, maintainable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BMus Piano Performance & Music Education (Vocal Emphasis), BMus Piano Performance & Music Education (Vocal Emphasis) at University of HartfordElementary Education Certification Kindergarten - 9 Education, Elementary Education Certification Kindergarten - 9 Education at DePaul UniversitySelf Study Foundations in Web Development, Self Study Foundations in Web Development at freeCodeCampComputer Science, Computer Science at University of TorontoWeb Applications for Everybody Specialization Computer Science, Web Applications for Everybody Specialization Computer Science at University of MichiganAWS Certified Solutions Architect & AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect & AWS Certified Developer Associate at Udemy Software Development Immersive Fullstack Web Development, Software Development Immersive Fullstack Web Development at General Assembly
Spanish, English
Github Skills (22)
guitar10
pixel10
rendering9
notation9
pixel-art9
music9
svg8
open-source8
mongoose7
javascript7
recipe7
music-notation7
musicxml7
expressjs6
mongodb5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spianoDev/honeyDo-django
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
A fully developed python/django back end application with two related models
Contributions:3 PRs, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
pythondjango-frameworkdjango-rest-frameworkdjangopython3
spianoDev/drawMusic
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
A fully developed Express/Node.js backend application that allows users to add one note at a time to a simple treble clef melody and view the results in standard notation.
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
melodynode-expressexpressjsnode-jsjavascript
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