Sarah LeClair

Sarah LeClair is a highly influential figure in the cloud-native ecosystem, renowned for her pivotal role as a Senior Staff Engineer and core maintainer of Linkerd, the ultra-lightweight service mesh. With a robust background in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic…

Key facts

Role: Core Maintainer, Linkerd / Senior Staff Engineer, Buoyant
Nationality: American

Notable quotes

"The biggest problem that we've seen Linkerd solve for folks is enabling that really easy out-of-the-box observability without needing to make any changes to your application." - Sarah LeClair, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021

"eBPF really helps us bring observability to an entirely new level, giving us a more complete picture of what’s happening on our node, and in an even more lightweight way." - Sarah LeClair, Cloud Native Live, 2023