Sarah Wells
Independent Consultant at EPSD, Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Wells is an independent consultant and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience helping organisations adopt cloud-native platforms, microservices, and modern engineering practices. She led large-scale transformations at the Financial Times—driving a move to cloud-native release practices, owning technical strategy and people leadership across hundreds of engineers, and improving developer experience and operational resilience. An author of O'Reilly’s Enabling Microservice Success (2024) and frequent international keynote speaker, she combines hands-on platform engineering with pragmatic governance and enablement approaches that accelerate delivery without increasing risk. Sarah advises on migrations from legacy systems, platform engineering, SRE/DevOps and organisational design, often using Team Topologies and behavioural nudges to influence empowered teams. Collected experience across product, platform and operations roles gives her a rare blend of tactical engineering depth and strategic leadership. Based in London, she brings a collaborative, evidence-driven style and a track record of turning complex technical change into repeatable organisational capability.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MA Natural Sciences (specialising in History and Philosophy of Science), MA Natural Sciences (specialising in History and Philosophy of Science) at University of CambridgeMSc Computing Science, MSc Computing Science at Birkbeck, University of London
Github Skills (95)
universal-publishing7
api6
uri6
neo4j5
nodejs5
read-write5
java5
django4
ctf4
interaction4
logging3
pac3
logger3
confluent-kafka3
financial3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/up-ssh-keys
Mar 2017 - Feb 2021
Collection of Universal Publishing public keys
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
public-keysuniversal-publishingpublishingkeys
sjwells/wosr
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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