Sarah Vector - Senior Software Engineer

Building scalable distributed systems and mentoring the next generation of engineers.
sarah@example.com • GitHub • LinkedIn

Professional Experience

Lead Backend Engineer • Cloudscape Systems

2022 - Present • Toronto, Canada

  • Led architecture and implementation of distributed tracing system processing 50M+ events daily
  • Reduced service latency by 40% through optimization of data pipeline and caching strategies
  • Mentored team of 5 engineers, implemented code review practices and technical documentation standards
  • Designed and implemented microservices migration strategy, successfully moving 12 legacy services
  • Tech: Go, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform

Senior Software Engineer • DataFlow Inc

2019 - 2022 • Toronto, Canada

  • Architected real-time data processing pipeline handling 1TB+ daily throughput
  • Implemented fault-tolerant service mesh across 200+ microservices
  • Led adoption of observability practices, reducing MTTR by 60%
  • Tech: Rust, Docker, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Prometheus

Software Engineer • TechStart Solutions

2017 - 2019 • Vancouver, Canada

  • Developed backend services for financial data analysis platform
  • Built automated deployment pipeline reducing deployment time by 70%
  • Tech: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker

Open Source Contributions

  • gotrace (Creator & Maintainer)
  • Distributed tracing library for Go with 2K+ GitHub stars

  • Used in production by 50+ companies

  • kubernetes/kubernetes (Contributor)
  • Implemented custom metrics collection features
  • Fixed critical bugs in networking stack

Conference Talks

  • GopherCon 2024: “Optimizing Go Services for Scale”
  • KubeCon Europe 2024: “Tales from the SRE Trenches”
  • DockerCon 2023: “Building Reliable Microservices”

Technical Skills

  • Languages: Go, Rust, TypeScript, Python
  • Backend: gRPC, REST, GraphQL
  • Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch
  • Cloud: AWS (Solutions Architect Certified), GCP
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog

Education

University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science • 2013 - 2017

  • First Class Honours
  • Teaching Assistant for Distributed Systems
  • President, Computer Science Student Society

Awards

  • AWS Community Builder (2023)
  • Open Source Contributor of the Year, GopherCon (2022)
  • Best Paper Award, Distributed Systems Conference (2021)

Languages

  • English (Native)
  • Mandarin Chinese (Professional)
  • French (Conversational)