Sarah Dutkiewicz
Senior Trainer
Sarah – who goes by "sadukie" in the tech community – is a platform-agnostic technologist known for helping developers understand user experience and on-boarding developers into new technologies in a short period of time. From waterfall development to Agile development, Sarah has experience in working in both environments and transitioning teams from waterfall into Agile. She has also worked with fellow developers in introducing ATDD skills to the non-technical folks – including requirements gathering in gherkin for business analysts and explaining Agile concepts to non-technical teams.
Sadukie also helps with promoting communities, engaging over social media, and helping non-technical teams understand how to work with their technical counterparts. She is a native Clevelander and uses her local knowledge to help connect people – technical and non-technical – for common good.
Sarah holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science & Engineering Technology from the University of Toledo. Sarah is a Microsoft MVP, published technical author, podcast/live coding guest, conference organizer, speaker, community advocate, software developer, wife, and mom.'
Posts
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December 19, 2025In this post, Sadukie breaks down some concepts seen in testing that can get muddled - test doubles, fakes, stubs, mocks, and spies.
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December 06, 2025This article explores key software qualities - like scalability for peak holiday demand, resilience to shipping delays, and maintainability for managing diverse …
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September 24, 2025Sadukie shares what she's found looking at Minecraft projects - from simple shelters to massive, automated farms - and realizing they're brimming with …
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September 17, 2025Many of us at NimblePros enjoy gaming of some sort - be it board games, card games, and even video games! In this post, we share some tech leadership lessons …
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August 04, 2025Why are there so many containers in eShopOnNServiceBus?! Sadukie demystifies that in this post!
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June 30, 2025Learn how we reuse a GitHub workflow in our repos.
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June 11, 2025Is your IT system a symphony or a dance? Unpack the core differences between orchestration and choreography to master coordination in modern microservices …
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June 06, 2025Maintaining code with a lot of tribal knowledge? We'll show you how to capture that knowledge in decision records!
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May 29, 2025Let's demystify Authentication, Authorization, and OAuth.
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May 09, 2025These are Sadukie's adventures at Stir Trek 2025 - including sessions on HTML, CSS, Blazor, and HTMX!
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April 29, 2025Baking a cake gone wrong can teach you more about user experience than you think! Discover practical UX principles learned from a real-life red velvet disaster, …
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April 17, 2025Learn how to run GitHub Pages locally using a Dev Container.