# Sarah Mica

> Senior Software Engineer at Headspace

Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarahmica

Hi! I'm Software Engineer who graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a B.S in Computer Science. I am a full-stack engineer, but I have a preference for backend feature development, and an interest in delving more into embedded development.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Headspace
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Headspace
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Inspire
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Alarm.com
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | McLean, VA

### Software Engineer @ Alarm.com
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | McLean, VA
- Part of the Video team
- Lead Engineer on several high impact device integration projects
- Manage 2 software engineers (starting in Jan 2019), which includes technical coaching, weekly check-in meetings, performance reviews, and overall career development
- Maintain and enhance a binary written in C that is embedded in all of our camera firmwares and is dependent for much of the backend communication with the devices
- Led a big refactoring effort to overhaul much of the video codebase to make things more clean, modular, and unit testable
- Develop code in C# to communicate with camera API's and develop backend services that work with our websites and mobile applications
- Debug and diagnose issues with cameras and video device firmwares
- Part of a planning team that organized a company-wide Hackathon event across multiple offices
- Worked with a peer on my team to create Video Onboarding Tutorials that provide in depth explanations of how our codebase works and various exercises to help new hires get up to speed
- Communicate with Product Managers, Vendors, and other engineers about the status of projects and issues and ensure everyone is aligned.

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Teaching Assistant for the class Designing Human Centered Software

### Software Engineer Intern @ BNY Mellon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Developed the ALEXIS chatbot framework into a working AI. Constructed the frontend with a built in AIML interpreter and connection to the Lync API. Contributed to the development of the machine learning algorithm which used a decision tree structure by pulling previous conversations from a SQL database

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University CyLab
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Worked on computer vision projects for the Allegheny Health Network. Created a smart tracking software for colonoscopy videos in real time using OpenCV. Built a voice recognition indexing tool using CMUSphinx

### Freelance Violinist @ Self-Employed
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014
Play at weddings, and other events including Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra summer/winter concerts. I also teach violin lessons to beginners


## Education
### Certificate in Sustainability Studies
UCLA
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22