Sarah Young
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Government Digital Service
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Young is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and operating cloud-native production systems, currently driving SRE practices at the Government Digital Service. She combines deep technical skills in observability, IaC and automation with empathetic leadership—coaching new infrastructure leads, running game days, and reducing alert fatigue through pragmatic monitoring reforms. Trained as a historian, she brings a rare humanities-informed lens to team culture, conflict transformation, and psychological safety, and is an active advocate for diversity, inclusion and collaborative XP practices. Known for public speaking and teaching, she translates complex technical goals into clear, actionable plans and nurtures high-performing teams through pairing, mobbing and pastoral care. Off the production line she balances rigorous problem-solving with a playful, human-centred approach to work and leadership—her stated ambition is to one day be a Chief Joy Officer.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Modern British History, Master of Arts (M.A.), Modern British History at The University of ManchesterMaster of Arts (M.A.), Women's Studies, Master of Arts (M.A.), Women's Studies at University of OxfordBachelor's degree, History, Bachelor's degree, History at Scripps CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at MakersStudy Abroad, Swahili Studies: Language, History, Culture, Study Abroad, Swahili Studies: Language, History, Culture at School of International Training
Github Skills (48)
tech-docs10
freeradius10
terraform9
puppet9
server-configuration9
drone-ci9
aws9
idris9
giphy9
version-control8
django8
publisher8
infrastructure8
supply-chain-management8
hotel-booking8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GovWifi/govwifi-terraform
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Terraform scripts to provision the GovWifi infrastructure on AWS
Contributions:158 reviews, 369 commits, 121 PRs in 3 years 1 month
awsterraformgovwifi
sarahseewhy/tech-culture-resources
May 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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