# Sarah B.

> Senior Rails Software Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarahb

I am a self-taught Ruby on Rails full stack developer with 15 years of professional experience. I love writing Ruby and React code.

## Work Experience
### Lead/Solo Front End Developer @ LexMateria.ai
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked as the lead/solo front-end React developer for two applications built on dotnet backends:
lexmateria.ai and virtualreporter.ai. Lexmateria, the main app, was already up and running when I
was brought on, but the virtual reporter app I built from the ground up.

For LexMateria, the main app:

- Added tests for important parts of the front-end using Vitest, React Testing Library, and Mock
Service Worker for component testing, with Playwright for end-to-end testing.

- Created a page object system to make testing easier (similar to a previous enzyme package
I made)

- AI chat filtering and search, along with general improvements in how the entire chat
works (for instance, recently I had to make the chat box expand up when a line
break occurs, which required some deep work into flexbox designs and changing
from a textarea to a div that is content-editable).

- Made the site totally responsive - it was already using MUI, so it wasn’t terribly
complicated, but making some pages work on mobile was a real challenge, requiring
more bespoke components.

For VirtualReporter:

- Created a small app for uploading A/V files, which are transcribed and delivered to the user.

- Used React Router v7, which felt much more like an MVC framework. There were some
growing pains with such a new framework (it had merged recently from remix for the newest
version), but ultimately it made for a much cleaner frontend.

- The requirements called for a full hero-page with the form as a full page below. This
was a fun problem to work on, and led to a nice design in the app, with the hero
being part of a layout and the form being each individual route, with some code to
determine when to scroll down past the hero

- Created localstorage backed minimal browser database

### Senior Fullstack Software Engineer @ beehiiv
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer II @ dutchie
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ Leafly
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ CrystalCommerce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area

### Software Engineer @ TotalDiscovery
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | 2001 6th Ave, Seattle WA
Creating new features for eDiscovery software with attentiveness to scale and speed.

### Rails Application Developer @ Documents Delivered
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
When Research Solutions closed (sold to another company), I helped start a new document delivery company and made the code-base entirely from scratch (to avoid legal issues and also because I knew it could be so much better!). 

Developed and delivered an entire internal large-scale app for managing orders and helping users (employees) communicate with clients and each other (codename Frodo).

The application:

- Tracked order state (in progress, canceled, delivered), history of order, and various restrictions placed by the client
- Delivered custom email messages from users to clients
- Handled adding/removing pages to PDFs (adding company cover sheet to front)
- Talked to external applications through API
- Had a focus on usability and user experience, to make work easier and more enjoyable

For this application, I had to learn many new things, such as:

- Run jobs in the background using a Redis and Sidekiq queue
- Write email to display correctly in a variety of email clients
- Make multiple apps work together through a hand-built API
- Work with PostgreSQL (previously had only used MySQL)

### Ruby on Rails Software Engineer @ Research Solutions
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
When the previous full-time developer for this small digital document delivery company decided to move on, I moved into his place. I designed and maintained the mysql-backed rails app (codename Yoda).

Developed and delivered an internal large-scale app for managing orders and helping employees communicate with clients and each other.

I also migrated the app from rails 2.1 to 2.3 (was working towards 3.1 but never quite got there).

The application:

- Tracked order state (in progress, canceled, delivered), history of orders, and various restrictions placed by the client
- Delivered custom email messages from users to clients
- Handled adding/removing pages to PDFs (adding company cover sheet to front)

I interviewed and hired a second developer (we actually ended up promoting from within), and together we worked on a second app - an employee time-management app (codename Vader).

The application:

- Had a neat graphical table of clock-ins/-outs, showing colored bars indicating punches and lunches
- Showed which users were currently logged in
- Implemented an internal single-sign-on, so users could log in to one place to use both apps


## Education
### Associate of Arts (A.A.)
Shasta College
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/d3vkit

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Last updated: 2026-03-22