Sari Mcfarland
Senior Software Developer II (Rust) at Waabi
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSari Mcfarland is a Senior Software Developer II specializing in Rust with 12 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems from embedded firmware to cloud services. Based in Vancouver, she has advanced through multiple Rust roles at Waabi and previously led improvements in CI/CD, automated testing, and production deployment at GroundTruth. Her sabbatical projects reveal a deep hardware-software curiosity—she built a 68k emulator capable of running Sega Genesis games, designed multiple PCBs including a 68030 board, and ported microcontroller firmware to Rust. Comfortable across Python, Rust, embedded C, and full-stack tooling, she excels at turning technical debt into maintainable pipelines and shipping practical, well-tested solutions. Colleagues know her as the engineer who pairs systems-level rigor with playful creativity—the GitHub bio “A transistor, and also a cat” hints at both her electronics chops and offbeat personality.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Stackoverflow
1,600reputation
57kreached
48answers
1question
rust
top-5%
Github Skills (64)
programming-language10
sega10
z8010
kicad10
playout10
broadcasting10
llvm10
eas10
icecast10
genesis10
streaming-video10
sega-genesis10
hardware10
automation10
media-player10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
transistorfet/conlog
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
transistorfet/computie
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
A collection of 68k computer projects, including a unix-like operating system written in C that runs on them
Contributions:369 commits, 170 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 2 months
operating-systemunixhardwarec68k
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