Sarah Chen

Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · sarah@example.com · github.com/sarahchen

Summary

Engineering leader with 8+ years building distributed systems at scale. Architected real-time data pipelines processing 2M+ events/sec, led cross-functional teams across 3 time zones, and drove 65% latency reduction resulting in $420K annual savings.

Experience

Staff Software Engineer2022 – Present

Datastream

Architected event-driven microservices platform processing 2M events/sec with 99.99% uptime
Led migration from monolith to Kubernetes, reducing deployment time from 2 hours to 8 minutes
Mentored 6 engineers, with 3 promoted to senior roles within 18 months

Senior Software Engineer2019 – 2022

CloudScale

Built real-time analytics dashboard serving 10K+ concurrent users with sub-100ms latency
Designed and implemented gRPC service mesh reducing inter-service communication overhead by 40%
Introduced automated load testing, catching 3 critical performance regressions before production

Software Engineer2017 – 2019

TechStart

Developed core API serving 500K daily active users with Go and PostgreSQL
Implemented CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, reducing release cycle from weekly to daily

Skills

GoKubernetesAWSPostgreSQLgRPCTerraformReactTypeScriptApache KafkaRedis

Education

M.S. Computer Science

Stanford University · 2017

B.S. Computer Science

UC Berkeley · 2015