Please write in English, not German. SparklingBlueMoon (talk) 18:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Sarah Drasner is an American speaker, author, and leader in the field of web development. She is known for her expertise in SVG animations, frontend architecture, and her leadership roles in engineering. Currently, she works as the Senior Director of Engineering for web, Android, iOS, and multi-platform core infrastructure at Google. Additionally, she is the author of the book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us.[1]

Career

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Sarah Drasner is a Senior Director of Engineering at Google, where she has been leading the Core Infrastructure teams since October 2023. These teams provide the foundation for Google apps on web, Android, iOS, and multi-platform environments.

Her responsibilities include overseeing teams for programming languages and libraries such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and Swift; mobile release platforms; web frameworks like Angular, Wiz, and ACX; the web platform; web testing (including Karma); Sass/CSS; Protos; and teams focused on web build/serve and framework primitives.

Previously, from May 2019 to April 2021, she was the Vice President of Developer Experience at Netlify, where she built a learning platform from the ground up using modern technologies like Next.js, Sanity, Cloudinary, and Serverless (explorers.netlify.com). In this role, she was responsible for R&D of new features, product strategies, and concept validation, leading three different teams.

From July 2017 to April 2019, Sarah served as a Principal Lead at Microsoft, working in the Azure Serverless Functions domain. Her focus was on developing and communicating feature roadmaps in collaboration with product managers, organizing cross-team meetings, enhancing developer experience feedback, and creating publicly available examples. She also collaborated closely with the VS Code team on integrations across various environments.[2][3]

As an advocate for emerging markets, she particularly supported underserved developer communities in regions like Eastern Europe and Africa. She brought her development experience and community feedback into product development while also creating internal and external tools, microsites, and resources for software development.[4]

Books

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  • SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation (2017), ISBN 978-1491939703[5]
  • Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (2022), ISBN 979-8986769318[6]

Awards and Nominations

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  • Top 50 JavaScript Developers in 2024 (AmorServ)[7]
  • Best of Best of Award (CSS Dev Conf's)[8]
  • Best Code Wrangler (CSS Design Awards)[9]

References

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  1. ^ Drasner, Sarah (2022). Engineering management for the rest of us. Place of publication not identified: Skill Recordings. ISBN 979-8-9867693-1-8.
  2. ^ Sarah, Drasner (2024-12-04). "Sarah Drasner on LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  3. ^ "Sarah Drasner's Site". sarah.dev. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  4. ^ "Sarah Drasner". LeadDev. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  5. ^ Drasner, Sarah (2017). SVG animations: from common UX implementations to complex responsive animation (1st ed.). Beijing Boston Farnham Sebastopol Tokyo: O'Reilly. ISBN 978-1-4919-3970-3.
  6. ^ Drasner, Sarah (2022). Engineering management for the rest of us. Place of publication not identified: Skill Recordings. ISBN 979-8-9867693-1-8.
  7. ^ "Top 50 JavaScript Developers in 2024". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  8. ^ "Sarah Drasner". womentalkdesign.com. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  9. ^ "CSS Design Awards - Website Awards - Best Web Design Inspiration - CSS Awards". www.cssdesignawards.com. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
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