Sarah Withee
Head Of Backend Development (CODE PA) at Pennsylvania Office of Administration
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Withee is a pragmatic technology leader with 11 years of hands-on engineering and team-building experience, currently leading Backend Development for Pennsylvania’s CODE PA to modernize government services and drive open-source adoption. She combines a strong backend pedigree—rewriting legacy systems into single Django services and building resilient AWS-native pipelines—with proven program management, having coordinated the multi-agency PAyback project and shaped CODE PA’s early principles and hiring. A longtime polyglot who contributed core Django logic to the codethesaur.us reference tool, she balances API and infrastructure work with usability and documentation improvements for public-facing government APIs. Known for mentoring and knowledge-sharing from 18F to startups, she brings both agency consulting chops and pragmatic product engineering, plus an offbeat streak as a hardware tinkerer and public speaker.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas City
Github Skills (3)
django10
python10
programming-language9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
codethesaurus/docs
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:13 reviews, 45 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 8 months
mkdocsprogramming-languagesthesaurus
geekygirlsarah/women-tech-speakers-organizers
Oct 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 2 months
womenspeakersorganizers
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