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sara hatlane

@sarahatlane

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Scrum Master & Product Owner driving agile delivery and product quality.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role where I can lead agile teams, drive product delivery and quality, work cross-functionally, and grow into broader product or delivery leadership.

I am a dedicated Scrum Master and Product Owner with over six years of experience fostering agile practices, facilitating collaboration, and ensuring delivery of high-quality products across the software development life cycle.

My background blends self-taught software engineering and hands-on data engineering exposure—supporting migration, verification and automation in Hadoop environments, managing Jira and Kanban boards, and maintaining process documentation to track velocity and release progress.

I focus on stakeholder management, continuous improvement and product quality assurance, and I bring practical experience in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reporting and cross-functional team leadership to deliver outcomes aligned with client specifications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Scrum Master / Product Owner

Ayoba

Jun 2023 - Jun 2025 (2 years)

Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement and retrospectives for the Ayoba Developer Portal, removed impediments to maintain team focus and tracked velocity to ensure timely delivery of Services-app features.

Scrum Sprint Planning Jira Sprint Retrospectives Velocity Tracking Stakeholder Management

Data Engineer

ABSA Bank Group Limited

Jul 2022 - Mar 2023 (8 months)

Worked in a Hadoop environment migrating data using StreamSets, automated migration processes and verified ETL/data quality with Ambari to ensure standardized, conformant datasets for downstream use.

Hadoop Streamset Ambari SQL DBeaver ETL Data Migration Automation

Product Engineer

FNB App Academy

Dec 2020 - Jul 2022 (1 year 7 months)

Maintained projects and troubleshooting code, managed Jira and Kanban boards, facilitated daily scrums and ensured product quality through testing and documentation across cross-functional teams.

Jira Kanban Product Testing Documentation Scrum Stakeholder Management Troubleshooting Continuous Improvement

Junior Software Developer

Shaper (Digital Academy)

Mar 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year 8 months)

Participated in full-stack web and mobile development internship tasks, supported IT systems and contributed to product testing and backlog prioritization to support end-to-end delivery.

Full Stack Web Development Web Development Mobile Development QA Testing Trello Confluence IT Support

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

FNB App Academy (IT Varsity)

Certificate of Completion, Full Stack Development

Completed workflow and full stack development training including data verification, ETL processes, and stack development components.

Sebetsa Othole Moputso Secondary School

National Senior Certificate, Secondary Education

2014 - 2018

Completed National Senior Certificate with subjects including English, Xitsonga, Life Orientation, Physical Science, Life Science, Geography and Mathematics.

Sector Education and Training Authority (MICT SETA)

National Certificate: Information Technology: Systems Support, Information Technology

Completed National Certificate in Information Technology: Systems Support at NQF Level 5 and related qualifications in software development and project delivery.

ABSA Bank Group - Shaper (Digital Academy)

Certificate of Completion, Software Development

Completed Shaper digital academy programme focused on software development and participated in ABSA-related projects and certifications.

Simplilearn / Udemy / Other online providers

Certificates of Completion, Project Management / Agile

Completed multiple professional certificates including Agile Scrum Master, Agile Scrum Foundation, Introduction to Kanban, SAFe, Prince2 introduction, Project Management 101, and PMP basics.