Sarah Thompson
Staff Engineer at HashiCorp
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Thompson is a Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in release engineering and quality automation, currently leading platform-level efforts at HashiCorp from Belfast. She progressed through hands-on QA and test automation roles at IBM, Puppet, and insurers into senior release and engineering leadership, blending rigorous quality practices with large-scale release orchestration. Known for translating complex release pipelines into reliable, repeatable workflows, she pairs practical systems thinking with people-focused leadership. Sarah is also pursuing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, signaling a growing focus on applying AI to improve automation and developer tooling. Her background in English literature gives her an uncommon strength in clear technical communication and documentation across engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex OnlineBachelor of Arts - BA English Language and Literature General, Bachelor of Arts - BA English Language and Literature General at University of Stirling
Github Skills (200)
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identity10
testing10
acceptance-testing10
integrations10
terraform10
azure-virtual-machine10
security10
consul10
infrastructure10
single-source10
gossip10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/docker-vault
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Official Docker images for Vault
Contributions:10 releases, 9 reviews, 24 commits in 1 year 8 months
hashicorp-vaultvaultdockerdocker-images
sarahethompson/beaker
Feb 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:41 pushes, 15 branches, 4 tags in 5 years 4 months
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
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