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<title>Sarah Sexton | Resume</title>
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<a href="https://github.com/SarahSexton/SarahSexton.github.io"><img
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<h1 itemprop="name">Sarah Sexton</h1>
<p class="contact">
<a href="https://linkedin.com/in/SarahJeanneSexton" target="_blank" rel="noopener" itemprop="sameAs">LinkedIn</a> |
<span itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/PostalAddress">
<span itemprop="addressRegion">Washington</span>
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<a href="mailto:email@SarahSays.dev" itemprop="email">email@SarahSays.dev</a> |
<a href="https://linktr.ee/SarahSays.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener" itemprop="sameAs">linktr.ee</a>
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<section class="section">
<h2>Full Stack Engineer</h2>
<p class="summary-list">
Software Engineer of 11+ years at Microsoft. Strong technical and communication skills, professional public speaker.
Attention to detail and impact-driven. Worked across multiple domains:
AI technologies, Spatial Computing, Developer Experience in video games, Commercial Software Engineering,
empowering Retail industries with Azure Cloud. Sarah’s unique blend of a B.S. in C.S. and Communications
makes her one of the few "Geeks who Speak."</br>
</p>
</section>
<section class="section">
<h2>Areas of Expertise</h2>
<ul class="skills" role="list">
<li>Artificial Intelligence</li><li>Cloud Accelerator</li><li>Engineering Fundamentals</li><li>Software Development</li><li>Documentation</li>
<li>Technical Training</li><li>Webinars</li><li>Accessibility</li><li>Community Building</li><li>Public Speaking</li><li>Audience Engagement</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section class="section">
<h2>Skills</h2>
<ul class="skills" role="list">
<li>C#</li><li>.NET core</li><li>ASP.NET</li><li>Python</li><li>PyTorch</li><li>PromptFlow</li><li>TensorFlow</li><li>GitHub Actions</li><li>Open Source</li>
<li>React</li><li>MaterialUI</li><li>Bootstrap</li><li>HTML</li><li>CSS</li><li>JavaScript</li><li>Responsive Web Design</li><li>ARIA best practices</li><li>UI/UX</li></br>
<br><li>Test-Driven Development (TDD)</li><li>Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)</li><li>Code coverage</li><li>Kubernetes</li>
<li>Agile methodologies, Scrum</li><li>Customer Relationship Management (CRM)</li><li>Software Development Lifecycles</li><li>DevOps</li></br>
<br><li>Prompt Engineering</li><li>Large Language Models (LLM)</li><li>Data Science / Machine Learning (DSML)</li><li>Generative AI</li>
<li>AI Foundry</li><li>ML Studio</li><li>Retrieve Augment Generate (RAG)</li><li>Custom ML Models</li><li>Deployment Patterns</li></br>
</ul>
</section>
<section class="section">
<h2>Experience</h2>
<div class="exp-job" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/JobPosting">
<h3 class="exp-title" itemprop="title">Senior Software Engineer</h3>- <span class="exp-company" itemprop="hiringOrganization">Turing Enterprises, Palo Alto, CA</span>
<span class="exp-dates" itemprop="datePosted">September 2025 – Present</span>
<ul class="exp-details" role="list">
<li>LLM Evaluation & Repository Validation: Identify high-quality public GitHub repositories with issues challenging for LLMs.</li>
<li>Analyze and triage GitHub issues across trending open-source libraries.</li>
<li>Set up and configure code repositories, including Dockerization and environment setup.</li>
<li>Evaluate unit test coverage and quality.</li><li>Modify and run codebases locally to assess LLM performance in bug-fixing scenarios.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/JobPosting">
<h3 class="exp-title" itemprop="title">Software Engineer II</h3>- <span class="exp-company" itemprop="hiringOrganization">Microsoft, Redmond, WA</span>
<span class="exp-dates" itemprop="datePosted">July 2018 – July 2025</span>
<ul class="exp-details" role="list">
<li>Spearheaded bleeding-edge technologies as they emerged: GenAI, ChatGPT, LLMs, RNNs, and more.</li>
<li>Overcame interoperability obstacles between Python & C# by exposing C# functions as DLLs, Dynamic Link Libraries, then invoking from Python via the pythonnet Python library.</li>
<li>34% satisfaction increase & value-add in customers overall by accelerating cloud workloads.</li>
<li>5+ years’ experience training data pipelines, fine-tuning models, and working across MLOps systems.</li>
<li>Utilized AI Foundry and Azure ML Studio to produce scores necessary to make data-driven decisions, such as relevancy, adherence, and groundedness.</li> <li>Deployed LLMs at scale; architected ML models end-to-end.</li>
<li>Led 22 technical engagements hands-on with top 500 Microsoft Azure commercial & retail customers.</li>
<li>Streamlined code testing processes by automating pull request gate build pipelines to report code coverage.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/JobPosting">
<h3 class="exp-title" itemprop="title">Technical Evangelist</h3>- <span class="exp-company" itemprop="hiringOrganization">Microsoft, Chicago, IL</span>
<span class="exp-dates" itemprop="datePosted">July 2014 – July 2018</span>
<ul class="exp-details" role="list">
<li>Organized Game Jams and Hackathons for over 100 diverse meetup members.</li>
<li>Co-founded a non-profit organization called The Voxel Collective for Gender Diversity in Game Development; organized Game Jams and Hackathons for over 100 diverse meetup members.</li>
<li>Ran over 70 Azure and gaming evangelism events across Microsoft Developer Experience (DX) field.</li>
<li>Created and delivered over 20 presentations at conferences from 2014 – 2020, with live technical demos for audiences of hundreds.</li>
<li>Advocated for over 24 professional developers & studios around the world by collecting product feedback and escalating technical blockers with engineering.</li>
<li>Interviewed 12 diverse game developers, sharing thought-provoking stories to inspire the next generation.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</section>
<section class="section">
<h2>Education</h2>
<p>
<strong>BS - Bachelor of Science – Computer Science</strong> | Communications Minor, summa cum laude<br>
Central Washington University - Ellensburg, WA
</p>
</section>
<section class="section">
<h2>Certifications & Awards</h2>
<ul class="awards" role="list">
<li>Microsoft Certified: Accessibility (2025), Privacy (2024), Security (2023), Azure Fundamentals (2019)</li>
<li>Microsoft Specialist: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (2015)</li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Circle of Excellence</strong> - FY16 Top Subsidiary Award (2015)</li>
<li><strong>Microsoft Diversity and Inclusion Award</strong> - 2015 MS Developer Experience (2015)</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section class="section links">
<h2 class="visually-hidden">Links</h2>
<p class="links-list">Portfolio: <a href="https://SarahSays.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SarahSays.dev</a> | Open-Source: <a href="https://github.com/SarahSexton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github/SarahSexton</a> | Thought Leadership: <a href="https://shebuildsgames.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SheBuildsGames.dev</a> | Tech Blog: <a href="https://aka.ms/sarahsays" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aka.ms/sarahsays</a></p>
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<h2>Additional Experience</h2>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Conference Associate</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">UBM · Contract</span>
<span class="exp-dates">Jan 2019 – Mar 2019 · 3 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">San Francisco, California, United States</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Punctual performance as a Conference Associate (CA) at the Game Developers Conference.</li>
<li>Partook in morning organization meetings before the conference from Sunday through Friday.</li>
<li>Dedicated availability during all conference hours starting from Sunday through Friday.</li>
<li>Reliably on-time and in-place for work shifts throughout the week, and also on-site and enjoying the show while not on-duty.</li>
<li>Maintained the level of excellence associated with the CAs.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Community Support Specialist</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">Kittitas Interactive Management</span>
<span class="exp-dates">Oct 2013 – Jun 2014 · 9 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">Ellensburg, WA</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Provide supervision and assistance for developmentally disabled adults in their own homes.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Publications Designer/Art Director</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">Central Washington University</span>
<span class="exp-dates">2013 – 2014 · 9 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">Ellensburg, WA</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Designed article layouts and created page art for the student-run organization, CWU Pulse Magazine.</li>
<li>Mastery of Google Slides, Apple Keynote, and Microsoft PowerPoint, along with proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Game Designer</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">Disrupted Gears Productions</span>
<span class="exp-dates">Apr 2013 – Sep 2013 · 6 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">Ellensburg, WA</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Developed new content and applied practical coding experience in the development of a LUA-based mobile game.</li>
<li>Organized, ran, and recorded the results of game playtesting. Created images and designed the user interface for the game.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</section>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Teaching Assistant</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">Central Washington University</span>
<span class="exp-dates">2012 – Mar 2012 · 3 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">Ellensburg, WA</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Assisted several professors in the math and computer science departments with grading assignments and answering student questions.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Researcher</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">CWU Wellness</span>
<span class="exp-dates">Oct 2011 – Feb 2012 · 5 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">Ellensburg, WA</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Part-time photographer employed to research the student body’s opinion on the social consumption of alcohol. Lead to an official SOURCE presentation.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Rides Ambassador</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">Worlds of Fun</span>
<span class="exp-dates">Jul 2011 – Sep 2011 · 3 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">Kansas City, Missouri Area</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Ensure the safety of the passengers, enforce the rules of the ride.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Cashier</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">McDonald's Corporation</span>
<span class="exp-dates">May 2005 – Jun 2011 · 6 yrs 2 mos</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Take orders to customer specifications, behind the counter and drive-thru window, always with a smile.</li>
<li>Periodically clean counters, wash dishes, sweep and mop floors, empty trashcans.</li>
<li>Manage flyers; cook, salt & mix French fries, then pack in cartons for customers.</li>
<li>Present bagged & packaged food for drive-thru customers with pleasant demeanor.</li>
<li>Provide customer service to average of 75 customers per shift.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Intern</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">The Issaquah Press</span>
<span class="exp-dates">Jul 2010 – Sep 2010 · 3 mos</span>-
<span class="exp-location">Issaquah, WA</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Interned as a copy editor and reporter. Wrote articles and interviewed civilians for the newspaper.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="exp-job">
<h3 class="exp-title">Copy Editor</h3>-
<span class="exp-company">Eastlake High School Newspaper</span>
<span class="exp-dates">2009 – 2010 · 1 yr</span>
<ul class="exp-details">
<li>Maintains a firm grasp on the grammatical rules of the English language.</li>
<li>Extremely thorough reader, proof-reader and writer.</li>
<li>Quick learner, eager to learn and unafraid of asking questions.</li>
<li>Responsible, reliable, and punctual.</li>
<li>Works well in groups and is self-motivated when working alone.</li>
</ul>
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