Sarah Sexton

About Me

A unique blend of Computer Science and Communications education combines technical expertise with an innate ability to connect with people: "a Geek who Speaks."

Location

Redmond, WA
Dallas, TX
Education
    Central Washington University
    September 2009 - July 2014
    degree
    Bachelor's
    major
    Computer Science
    minor
    International Business and Communications
Work Experience
    Microsoft
    Software Engineer II
    Redmond, WA, United States, 98073
    July 2019 - July 2025
    company
    Microsoft
    title
    Software Engineer II
    overview
    Industry Software Engineering (ISE) - Retail • Spearheaded bleeding-edge technologies as they emerged: GenAI, ChatGPT, LLMs, RNNs, and more. • 5+ years’ experience training data pipelines, fine-tuning models, deploying LLMs at scale, architecting ML models end-to-end. • Overcame interoperability obstacles between Python & C# by exposing C# functions as DLLs, Dynamic Link Libraries, then invoking from Python via the pythonnet Python library.
    Microsoft
    Software Engineer I
    Redmond, WA, United States, 98073
    July 2018 - July 2019
    Microsoft
    Technical Evangelist
    Chicago, IL, United States, 60642
    July 2014 - July 2018
Fun Fact

I've memorized up to 80 digits of pi.

Passion

"Ikigai" is my north star.

Skills
Languages
EnglishSpanish
Skills
Ability to Speak in PublicAgile MethodologyArtificial IntelligenceASP.NETAttention to DetailBootstrap (Software)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud ComputingCode CoverageCommercial SoftwareCommunication SkillsContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationC Sharp (Programming Language)Customer Relationship ManagementData ScienceDemonstration SkillsDesign of User InterfacesDigitizationGenerative AIGithubGPTHololensHTMLInformation TechnologyInfrastructure ManagementJavaScript (Programming Language)KanbanLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningMentoringMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft WindowsMixed RealityMoulding MachinesNatural Language Processing.NET CoreOpen Source TechnologyPrompt EngineeringPython (Programming Language)PytorchReactJSRetail CommerceSafety PrinciplesScrum MethodologySoftware Bug ManagementSoftware EngineeringTensorflowTest-Driven Development (TDD)Thought LeadershipTraining DataTriageUnit TestingUniversal DesignVideo Game Development
Gigs / Freelance
    Turing
    Senior Software Engineer
    UserTesting
    Contributor
Volunteer
    The Indigenous Roots and Reparation Foundation (IRRF)
Leadership
    Ada Lovelace Club: Women in Computer Science
    Founder
    The Voxel Collective
    Co-Founder
    Association for Computing Machinery
    President
Hobbies
Video Games
Github / Code
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Videos
    Demystifying 3D Animation
    October 2017
    This is a basic video walkthrough of the beginning steps of the animation process of rigging and skinning a 3D model in Maya, then importing to Unity. Here is a link to the mannequin model used in the video. [00:28] - 1.) Identifying where joints will be placed. [00:52] - Start rigging a...
    Demystifying Construct2
    October 2017
    Construct 2 is a free drag-and-drop game maker. It creates 2-Dimensional games that run right in the web browser using HTML5. It allows anyone to build games — no programming required! And best of all, once your games are published to the web, nobody has to download anything to play them....
    Demystifying Unity 3D
    October 2017
    Unity3D is a powerful cross-platform 3D engine and a user friendly development environment. Easy enough for the beginner and powerful enough for the expert; Unity should interest anybody who wants to easily create 3D games and applications for mobile, desktop, the web, and consoles. Learn...
    Demystifying Consoles: Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo
    October 2017
    Gaming consoles are closed platforms; they demand quality over quantity. To prove you are serious as a video game developer, what should you do? What can you do to help promote yourself in the community as an indie dev? Xbox Development is improving its Dev Mode, releasing a new Creators P...