Sarah Shader

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud-native applications, backend platforms, and high-performance APIs. Proven track record improving latency, scalability, reliability, and developer productivity across high-growth SaaS and low-latency infrastructure environments. Strong expertise in C#, .NET, microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, observability, and production systems operating at millions of requests per day.

Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading (2026-05 – Present)

• Improved p99 latency by 45% for a critical backend service through database optimization and serialization improvements.
• Developed internal tracing and monitoring platforms that accelerated production incident diagnosis.
• Partnered with infrastructure and quantitative teams to optimize service performance under high-load conditions.
• Participated in architecture reviews balancing latency, reliability, scalability, and operational complexity.

Software Engineer at Tandem (2025-08 – 2026-04)

• Supported backend services processing 20M+ API requests daily across large-scale collaboration workflows.
• Reduced CI/CD pipeline execution time by 70% by decomposing monolithic build processes into parallel stages.
• Enhanced observability through logging, metrics, and alerting improvements, reducing production troubleshooting time.
• Collaborated with product and design teams to deliver scalable APIs while maintaining backward compatibility.

Software Engineer at Convex (2022-11 – 2025-08)

• Scaled backend infrastructure supporting tens of millions of requests per day across developer-facing platforms.
• Reduced cloud infrastructure costs through autoscaling optimization and resource efficiency improvements.
• Led Kubernetes migration initiatives, improving deployment consistency and operational scalability.
• Built internal developer tools that streamlined local development and engineering workflows.

Software Engineer at Asana (2018-05 – 2022-10)

• Reduced API latency by 62% through database optimization, caching improvements, and performance tuning.
• Increased deployment frequency from weekly releases to multiple deployments per day through CI/CD modernization.
• Reduced production incidents by 40% through enhanced monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility.
• Delivered backend services and platform improvements supporting millions of active users.
• Collaborated across engineering and product teams to deliver scalable features and platform enhancements.

Software Engineer Intern at Asana (2017-06 – 2017-08)

• Developed internal engineering tools and production features under senior engineer mentorship.
• Participated in code reviews, testing, deployment, and production engineering workflows.
• Learned production engineering practices in a large-scale collaborative environment.

B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014 – 2018)