Sarah Withee
Head of Backend Development at CODE PA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, international public speaker, teacher, mentor, and hardware and robot tinkerer located in Pittsburgh, PA. She is passionate about the intersection of technology and people. Presently she is the head of backend development for CODE PA, a new government office located within Pennsylvania to help improve the digital services of the state. She was formerly at 18F, a federal office doing digital transformation work around the federal government, and many private industry jobs before that.
As a polyglot (multiple-language) developer, she has worked in a wide range of tech stacks and has built desktop, mobile, web, and backend applications. She is also one of the organizers of Code & Supply, Pittsburgh's largest technology community. She is currently a lead mentor for Girls of Steel Robotics, an all-girls high school robotics team, which just got back from the world championships. She has been mentoring and judging FIRST competition teams since 2011.
Sarah has given over 70 software engineering conference talks, been a guest on nearly two dozen podcasts, has been interviewed for Teen Vogue and Reinvented Magazine, and even appeared on a Google Year in Search video! She was on the "RealLIST Engineers 2022: These 16 tech leaders are changing Pittsburgh’s code" and has won the NCWIT Western PA 2024 Educator Award.
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The Live Coders International Women's Day Challenge for Women Sessionize Event
CodeMash 2020 Sessionize Event
NDC Oslo 2019 Sessionize Event
Stir Trek 2019 Sessionize Event
NDC London 2019 Sessionize Event
CodeMash 2019 Sessionize Event
dev up Conference 2018 Sessionize Event
Strange Loop 2018
I Built an Artificial Pancreas! (Lightning Talk)
Code Daze Vol. 2
A Primer on Functional Programming
Self.Conference 2018
Maintaining Your Mental and Emotional Health While Job Hunting
Music City Tech 2018 Sessionize Event
deliver:Agile 2018
Building Your Team to Last: Successful Onboarding and Mentoring Practices
Heartifacts
Emcee for the conference
Techtonica Launch Celebration
Invited keynote speaker, "Doors"
Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas Celebration of Women in Computing 2017
Pursuing a Passion Project: Struggles and Successes
dev up Conference 2017
Intro to Hacking with the Raspberry Pi
The Power of Secrets
AlterConf Austin 2017
Life as a Midwestern Developer
Self.Conference 2017
The Power of Secrets (session)
How to Start a Podcast (lightning talk)
Prairie.Code() 2016
Building Your Team to Last: Successful Onboarding and Mentoring Practices
A Primer on Functional Programming
AlterConf Portland 2016
The Power of Secrets
AndConf
Why Self Care Is Harder for Me (lightning talk)
Kansas City Developer Conference 2016
A Primer on Functional Programming
Building Your Team to Last
Self.Conference 2016
A Primer on Functional Programming (session)
Encouraging Kids Through Robotics Mentoring (lightning talk)
Nebraska.Code() 2016
Building Your Team to Last
A Primer on Functional Programming
Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas Celebration of Women in Computing 2015
Intro to Hacking with the Raspberry Pi
Kansas City Developer Conference 2015
Intro to Hacking with the Raspberry Pi
Intro to Hacking with the Raspberry Pi (encore)
Nebraska.Code() 2015
Intro to Hacking with the Raspberry Pi
Events pre-2015
I've spoken at a wide variety of events other than conferences. To see events before 2015, or some other misc. events between 2015 and now, please see my website at https://geekygirlsarah.com/speaking/talks/
Sarah Withee
Head of Backend Development at CODE PA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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