My name is Sarah!

▶️ I have a YouTube channel: Dr Guthals and a Twitch Channel.

📚 I have written a number of papers and books around technical and educational topics. Check out all of my books here.

📫 How to reach me:

😄 Pronouns: She/Her

⚡ Fun fact: I'm a single mom of 3 dogs, 2 cats, 1 corn snake, 2 axolotls, and 1 child!

• 15 years’ experience managing and developing collaborative software projects in-person and remotely
  • Director of Developer Relations: Led a team of advocates and program managers to create content and applications for developers focused on application monitoring; focused on reaching developers with content relevant to their stack.
  • Staff Developer Advocate Lead: Quickly grew an advocacy team that partners across engineering and marketing to improve the DevEx for all of Coinbase APIs.
  • Principal Developer Advocate Lead: Focused on highlighting Microsoft’s developer platforms and tools to solve authentic problems in the space of ML and AI.
  • Engineering Manager for GitHub Editor Tools: Led a team of 10 distributed engineers for the GitHub integrations to Visual Studio, VS Code, Unity, and Atom. o Lead software developer for GitHub’s Under 13 solutions: in-browser learning experience that engages kids under 13 in coding.
  • Creator, product manager, and developer of LearnToMod, in-browser Minecraft modding software, and CodeSpells, a 3D video game with a $164K Kickstarter.
• 14 years’ experience teaching, leading curriculum development, designing learning experiences, and leading professional development courses:
  • Author of 8 “For Dummies” books, including two versions of GitHub for Dummies. o Author to 22 Microsoft Learn Modules focusing on machine learning.
  • Recorded, edited, and produced over 50 technical videos and live streams.
  • Director of Curriculum and Instruction for ~40 technical courses, workshops, and summer camp programs throughout San Diego, CA, USA.
  • Curriculum Developer for Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles UCSD Pilot course, e-textbook, and Teacher Professional Development Resources for the NSF CS10K Project. Funded by NSF Broadening Participation in Computing. o UCSD Lecturer in the Computer Science and Education Studies Departments.
• 10 years’ experience with entrepreneurship and consulting:
  • Co-founder and CTO of ThoughtSTEM, LLC: a 40-person educational software company committed to bringing STEM to K-12 formal and informal learning environments with over $1M in annual revenue at departure, specifically raising over $700K in grant and crowd-funding.