# Sarah Tappon

> Software Engineer

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarahtappon

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Watershed
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead @ Dropbox
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022
- Two years as an Android engineer. Led a successful multi-year rewrite of one of our most complex and heavily used features. Transitioned the org into using Kotlin coroutines for async code.
- Three years as a desktop engineer. Led a team and managed complex cross-team dependencies. First we built out core capabilities for an in-house desktop UI framework. Then we shipped a new product on top of it. Stack was [Objective-C || PyQt]/Python/Typescript/React.

### Director of Software Engineering @ Other Machine Co.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Worked closely with hardware and product on long-term vision and goals. Aligned the software roadmap with users’ needs. Improved release, testing, and prioritization processes. Still wrote code ~50% of the time.

### Software Engineer @ Other Machine Co.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
Developed an innovative and easy-to-use application for controlling a CNC mill (a 3d cutting machine used in digital manufacturing). Led a year-long port from Cocoa to C++/Qt.

### Software Engineer @ Neurobehavioral Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Albany, CA
C++ developer for a cognitive science stimulus presentation and data collection app

### Senior Research Assistant @ Oregon Health & Science University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Portland, OR
Data analyst for functional brain imaging research. Experience with Matlab, R, python, bash scripting.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics
Reed College

### Computer Science
Portland State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarah-tappon-95412452

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Last updated: 2026-04-11