Sarah Sexton

Central Washington University · Class of 2014

Central Washington University

Bachelor's

Computer Science

Redmond, WA

Speaks English and Spanish

Identity verified

Sarah Sexton

Central Washington University · Class of 2014

Central Washington University

Bachelor's

Computer Science

Redmond, WA

Speaks English and Spanish

Identity verified

Education

Central Washington University

Bachelor's, Computer Science

September 2009 - July 2014

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

Fun fact

I've memorized up to 80 digits of pi.

Volunteer

The Indigenous Roots and Reparation Foundation (IRRF)

Hobbies

Video Games

Work history

Microsoft

Software Engineer II

July 2019 - July 2025 · Redmond, WA, United States, 98073

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…

Microsoft

Software Engineer I

July 2018 - July 2019 · Redmond, WA, United States, 98073

Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) - Spatial Computing • 34% satisfaction increase & value-add in customers overall by accelerating cloud workloads. • Led 22 technical engagements hands-on with top 500 Microsoft Azu…

Microsoft

Technical Evangelist

July 2014 - July 2018 · Chicago, IL, United States, 60642

Developer Experience (DX) - Field • Co-founded a non-profit organization called The Voxel Collective for gender diversity in video game development. • Ran over 70 Azure and gaming evangelism events across Microsoft Dev…

Passion

"Ikigai" is my north star.

Gigs & freelance

Turing

Senior Software Engineer

UserTesting

Contributor

Leadership

Ada Lovelace Club: Women in Computer Science

Founder

The Voxel Collective

Co-Founder

Association for Computing Machinery

President

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…

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…

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…

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 communi…

GitHub

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