Sarah E. E. Burt

Software Engineer

Summary

Versatile software engineer working at the intersections of web applications, cloud infrastructure, security, scale, reliability, data, UX, and accessibility.

Experience

August 2023 - Present

Senior Devops Engineer

Ford Pro Charging is an EV charging management platform. I work on container based workloads in Kubernetes clusters for multi-region fleet charging. This includes an AWS -> GCP migration, deployment, and observability.

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Gitlab
  • Datadog
  • On call
July 2021 - April 2023

Site Reliability Engineer

Zymergen was acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks. I worked on observability, deployment, Kubernetes architecture, and supporting distributed data processing backend infrastructure for advanced scientific research.

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • Prometheus / Grafana / Alert manager
  • Access Management
  • Security
  • On call
September 2020 - June 2021

Database Engineer

Mailchimp's Database Engineering team. I worked on database reliability engineering outcomes, on call, and incident response for Mailchimp's PB+ data footprint.

  • Mysql
  • Intensive on call
  • Disaster recovery
  • Optimization
January 2019 - September 2020

Systems Engineer

Mailchimp's 'Services' Systems Engineering team. My responsibilities included infrastructure maintenance via Puppet, artifact management improvment, disaster recovery capacity building, and on call and incident response

  • Puppet
  • Artifactory
  • Disaster recovery
  • On call
November 2016 - January 2019

Software Engineer

Presence Learning is a tele-therapy educational service platform. I worked on a small team focused on developer-centric infrastructure/devops, AWS, and chatbots. Most of our team's logic was via boto and Slack bots.

  • Boto
  • Ansible
  • Datadog
  • hubot
  • CloudFormation
  • AWS
June 2014 - October 2016

Software Engineer

Turnitin is an international plagiarism-detection, educational services platform. I honed basic software engineering skills via product and technical support engineering.

  • Perl
  • Javascript
  • Postgres
March 2014 - May 2014

Quality Engineer

Test automation for Turnitin - an international plagiarism-detection, educational services platform.

  • Python
  • Unix
August 2012 - February 2014

Quality Assurance Engineer

Test automation and release engineering for an open source scientific publishing software platform at the Public Library of Science.

  • Python
  • Java
  • Bash
  • Mysql
  • Selenium
  • Unix
October 2011 - July 2012

QA Engineer

Quality Assurance for Justanswer.com (briefly: Pearl.com)

September 2008 - October 2011

Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance for various teams and projects at Ask.com, frontend and backend.

  • Python
  • Unix
  • Web crawling
  • Search indexing
September 2007 - September 2008

Customer Support Specialist

Customer/Product Support at Ask.com.

  • Right Now CRM Adminstration
  • Web troubleshooting
  • Network troubleshooting

Education

Sarah Lawrence College

September 2001 - May 2011

Bachelors Liberal Arts

References

— Available upon request.