Sarah Usher
Lead Architect at Tech Risers Women
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Usher is a Lead Architect and seasoned data engineer with over a decade of experience designing scalable distributed and centralized data platforms for companies like BBC, Pleo and Snyk. She combines hands-on architecture and engineering—spanning Kafka, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/GCP and dbt—with strong practises in TDD, data-as-a-product and schema-first design to drive reliability and ownership across organisations. Sarah has a track record of turning messy, high-risk data into vetted sources of truth, cutting costs and cycle times (e.g., preventing major billing errors and halving quote times for a travel startup). Beyond delivery she builds capability: mentoring, running workshops since 2015, founding Snyk’s Engineering Mentorship program and co-organising Ladies of Code and Tech Risers Women. She prefers lean, collaborative environments (pairing, mobbing) and is pragmatic about tooling—willing to learn the right technology for the job rather than defaulting to known stacks.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University of the WitwatersrandUniversity of Johannesburg 
English
Github Skills (49)
snyk10
devsecops10
reachability10
static-analysis10
monitor10
sarif10
supply-chain-security10
software-composition-analysis10
monitors10
security10
vulnerabilities10
cli10
java9
java-agent9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SarahU/jgit
Jan 2021 - Jul 2023
JGit project repository (jgit), forked to Datical so we can run it in our OSGi environment that is old. Can use public jGit if we update to a version of eclipse framework > 4.x
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 6 months
jgitosgiupdateeclipsejava
SarahU/java-goof
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 PRs, 84 pushes, 79 branches in 1 year 11 months
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