Sara Kay
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Data engineer and infrastructure builder based in Boston, MA. CMU MSBA '26. AWS certified. Published across finance, family science, survey methodology, and AI. Building things at the intersection of data systems, AI tooling, and whatever problem is most interesting right now.
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building anime databases
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learning japanese
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firing up the laser cutter
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presenting at conferences
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working on data pipelines
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writing Data Gremlin newsletter
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judging scholarships
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building anime databases
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learning japanese
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firing up the laser cutter
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presenting at conferences
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working on data pipelines
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writing Data Gremlin newsletter
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judging scholarships
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Sara Kay is a Site Reliability Engineer II at IBM (HashiCorp unit), focused on data systems and infrastructure reliability. She conducts research, presents at academic conferences, and specializes in making data systems resilient. Beyond her technical work, she creates custom fabricated products for charity events, mentors students in data and programming, and contributes to communities through volunteer work. Her work spans infrastructure engineering, academic research, maker culture, and community service.
AWS Data Engineer
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Dartmouth College
BA Computer Science + Quantitative Social Science
Graduated with Honors
Academic Citation of Merit
TuckLAB Finalist
First-Year Emerging Leader
graduated with honors and a very specific brain
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper School)
MS Business Analytics, May 2026
University Honors
graduated with university honors (top QPA!)
Data & Analysis
Programming
Infrastructure
AI & Machine Learning
Research
Making