Sarah Guermond
Senior Software Developer at Redfin
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Guermond is a Senior Software Developer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and automation that make workflows simpler and more reliable. At Redfin she has moved through multiple teams—from Mortgage Intelligence to Core Agent Tools and Customer Relationship Engineering—delivering schema-driven multi-tenant features and customer-facing tooling. She pairs a strong Python/Django background with practical data engineering skills, contributing to projects like khmer for bioinformatics k-mer processing and improving documentation and onboarding for django-carrots tutorials. With a master's in integrative biology and a statistics minor, she brings scientific rigor and experiment-driven problem solving to software design. Sarah also blends teaching and community work into her practice, having led workshops and curriculum development for General Assembly and Geek Girls Carrots. Beyond code, she enjoys hands-on tinkering—recently prototyping an automated goat cheese maker—illustrating a pragmatic, maker-first approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Marine Science, Marine Science at University of OtagoBachelor of Science (BS), Dean's Scholars Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Dean's Scholars Biology at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's Degree, Integrative Biology, minor in Statistics, Master's Degree, Integrative Biology, minor in Statistics at Oregon State University
Github Skills (21)
git10
mer10
restructuredtext10
postgresql10
python10
django10
rs10
schema-design10
multitenancy10
schema-org10
graph-traversal10
bioinformatics10
schema10
multi-tenant10
documentation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ggcarrots/django-carrots
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Tutorials walking new programmers through the process of building their first website in Python and Django
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sarah's commits primarily focus on updating the project's documentation and language used in the tutorial. They edited and updated several `.rst` files, which indicates a focus on improving the clarity and accuracy of the documentation for the Django Carrots project. The changes include modifications to installation instructions, quickstart guides, and model descriptions, suggesting a comprehensive effort to refine the tutorial's content. Furthermore, there is no direct evidence of other programming skills demonstrated in the commit history.
djangopython
django-tenants/django-tenants
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Django tenants using PostgreSQL Schemas
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 13 days
Contributions summary:Sarah focused on implementing features related to tenant management within the Django application. They added functionality for creating tenant schemas from a base schema, which involved modifications to the schema cloning process and database interaction. The contributions also included updates to documentation and fixing code formatting issues, demonstrating a focus on code quality and usability. These changes directly support the core functionality of the multi-tenant Django application.
django-tenantspostgresql
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