Zara Kavita Sharma

Overview

Currently at Fern Data, where I lead developer tools with a team of 52. Moved 76% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Led the migration of 78 services to compilers. Most at home with Rust and LSP. Jazz piano, badly.

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Jan 2025 - Present
   Fern Data · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Moved 90% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Led the migration of 57 services to LSP.
2. Principal Engineer

   Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
   AIB · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Backed 39 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Led or co-led 11 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   May 2020 - Apr 2022
   Google · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 26 million requests a day.
   • Shipped 23 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Sep 2018 - May 2020
   Arm · 1 yr 8 mo · Contract · London, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 28% in two quarters.
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Staff Software Engineer

   Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
   Wise · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 25 a week to 4.
   • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

1. King's College London

   BSc, Computer Science
   2006 - 2009