SARA NEWMAN
Mobile Developer (iOS / Android) — Cambridge, Massachusetts
hello@saranewman.dev · saranewman.dev · github.com/saranewman · linkedin.com/in/sara-newman-dev

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PROFILE
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23-year-old software engineer, Harvard College '26 (A.B. Computer Science,
secondary in Statistics, magna cum laude). Six years of shipping mobile software,
three App Store releases in progress. Comfortable owning a product end to end:
research, design, Swift/Kotlin implementation, backend, store submission.

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EDUCATION
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Harvard College — Cambridge, MA                                    2022 – 2026
  A.B. Computer Science, secondary field in Statistics
  GPA 3.87/4.0 · magna cum laude · Phi Beta Kappa
  Senior thesis: "Pocket-Sized Taste: On-Device Recommendation for Long-Tail
  Video Catalogs" — Highest Honors, advised by Prof. D. Almeida
  Selected coursework: CS 165 Data Systems · CS 179 Design of Useful and Usable
  Interactive Systems · CS 181 Machine Learning · CS 262 Distributed Systems ·
  STAT 110 Probability · STAT 139 Linear Models

Lincoln High School — Portland, OR                                 2017 – 2022
  AP Computer Science A (5) · Robotics club captain

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EXPERIENCE
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Founder — Newman Labs (sole proprietor), Cambridge MA      Jun 2026 – present
  Building and shipping three mobile apps solo: JKAnime (anime tracking),
  Reelo (movie discovery), GemDrop (Free Fire rewards). Swift/SwiftUI on iOS,
  Kotlin Multiplatform shared data layer, Node/PostgreSQL and Firebase backends.
  Funded by two days a week of freelance iOS contracting.

Software Engineering Intern — Fable Health, New York NY        Summer 2025
  Led an accessibility overhaul of the patient iOS app: VoiceOver rotor support,
  dynamic type across all layouts, contrast audit closing 63 WCAG violations.
  Received a return offer.

Undergraduate Research Assistant — Harvard SEAS,
Interactive Systems Group                                       2024 – 2025
  On-device recommendation under memory constraints. Co-author on a CHI 2025
  Late-Breaking Work poster (n=42 user study on recommendation explanations).

Mobile Engineering Intern — Northline Media, Boston MA         Summer 2024
  Owned the offline-download queue for the iOS streaming client. Rebuilt it on
  resumable chunked transfers with a retry ladder: 41% fewer failed downloads
  on unstable networks.

Teaching Fellow — CS50 and CS50 Mobile, Harvard SEAS             2023 – 2026
  Six semesters. Weekly sections, ~480 students graded, rewrote the Swift
  networking problem set.

Freelance iOS Developer — Remote                                Summer 2022
  Four clients: two small-business apps and a scheduling tool for a climbing gym.

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APPS IN PROGRESS (2026)
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JKAnime — Watch Anime         In App Review · target Sept 2026 · 612 TestFlight testers
Reelo — Movie Discovery       Submitted · target Oct 2026 · 178k-title catalog
GemDrop — Free Fire rewards   Closed beta · target Nov 2026 · 1,340 testers

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SKILLS
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Mobile     Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform,
           React Native/Expo, Core Data, CloudKit
Backend    Node.js, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Redis, GraphQL, Docker
ML/Data    PyTorch, Core ML, R, pandas
Craft      Figma, Instruments, XCTest, Fastlane, App Store Connect, CI/CD
Languages  English (native), Portuguese (fluent), Japanese (JLPT N3)

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AWARDS
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HackHarvard 2024 — 1st place, Mobile track ("Sublet")
Detur Book Prize, 2024
PRISE Fellowship, Harvard, summer 2023