Sarah Weinstein
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Weinstein is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building accessible, visually rich UIs and resilient back-end systems from San Diego. She blends front-end design sensibility—contributing to Pivotal’s React component library and internal design systems—with deep API and CLI work on Cloud Foundry projects, where she improved documentation, refactored client libraries, and hardened v3 security group features. At Binti she led the Family Finding module, balancing product trade-offs, accessibility-first component design, and cross-functional collaboration while coaching teams and running React/Jest trainings. Comfortable switching roles under pressure, she has stepped into product, design, and engineering duties to deliver scrappy proofs of concept and high-impact demos. Practical, detail-oriented, and community-minded, Sarah pairs UI craftsmanship with backend correctness and an emphasis on maintainability and discoverability.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyStudy Abroad Computer Science, Study Abroad Computer Science at Queen Mary University of LondonUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
ruby10
api-documentation10
component-library10
go10
api10
react10
documentation10
cli10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
refactor9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cli
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits, 92 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sarah focused on refactoring the Cloud Foundry CLI's API interaction layer, specifically the `ccv3` package, to extract and consolidate client requests into shared files. This included refactoring multiple operations like creates, deletes, gets, and updates across different resources (apps, buildpacks, domains, etc.), leading to improved code organization and maintainability within the CLI. They modified code in multiple files, particularly `metadata.go`, `isolation_segment.go`, `organization.go`, `droplet.go`, `shared.go` and `relationship.go` indicating that they were interacting with Cloud Controller API endpoints.
foundrycf-clicloud-foundrycloud-foundry-clicli
pivotal-cf/pivotal-ui
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
Pivotal's design system & component library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits, 16 PRs, 69 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to the user interface components and styleguide of the Pivotal UI library, focused on React components. Their work involved modifying existing components like the CheckboxDropdown, table components, and the CodeEditor in the styleguide to improve functionality and fix bugs. Further changes focused on refactoring and updating components for the latest React versions and improving the style guide's functionality. These contributions indicate a focus on UI/UX and component library maintenance.
reactpivotaldesign-systemreact-componentscomponent-library
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