About

Sarah Gorring is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer with over 5 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently working as a Software Engineer at heard, she has previously worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon and as a Software Engineer at Macy's Technology. At Amazon, Sarah worked as a tech lead for eero's Certified For Humans project, where she communicated with the Alexa team to clarify product requirements and coordinated with stakeholders across the project on project structure and requirements. She built out logic using Scala and Play for Alexa proactive endpoint management and delivered the current and historical internet data usage feature. Sarah also built a system to schedule, calculate, and send weekly/monthly data usage notifications to 30k users weekly, extended Kafka sink connector for Apache Phoenix to parse and write 3k events per second, and automated the deploy to Kubernetes using Gitlab CI/CD and Helm charts. She also mentored an intern on completing their summer project and integrating with the team. Sarah overhauled mobile analytics data pipeline for GDPR and CCPA compliance, designed aggregated metrics with the product, mobile, and security teams to ensure necessary information was captured while ensuring any personal data was de-identified, reduced Redshift disk usage by 4TB (50%) through improved data models, and decreased pipeline runtime by migrating event processing from Snaplogic to Airflow and Spark. She built and extended data pipelines using Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Redshift, and Postgres. At Macy's Technology, Sarah used Java, Spring, and Cassandra to build the backend for Macy's online catalog, worked on splitting the monolith catalog service into microservices, and improved data modeling allowing for synergy between online and brick and mortar catalogs. She also led the summer intern project for two interns to build a web scraping app that found the top catalog category break downs used by other ecommerce sites and built an API integration testing library using Cucumber. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science and Arts (B.S.A) degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. She has a strong proficiency in various technologies including Spark, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, SQL, Kafka, Mobile, Scala, Databricks, Terraform, CI/CD, Postgres, Cassandra, Spring, Microservices, Integration, Backend, and Web.