USponsor Me was founded in California, USA, in 2017 by Sarah Papasodaro and Maxime Hilaire, two French individuals who had gone through the nightmarish job-finding and visa sponsorship process themselves.
We went through it too, and we know how painful it is to get hired and get a visa in the USA. That’s why we created the tool we would have loved to have at the time of our research!
Sarah Papasodaro
What We Believe
We believe that by experiencing the world and embracing different cultures, people gain a deeper understanding, foster mutual respect, and contribute to building a more peaceful and connected world.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide you with the opportunity to explore life in the U.S. and fully immerse yourself in American culture, thereby strengthening your language and communication skills, personal development, decision-making, and social interaction.
Meet The Team
Sarah Papasodaro
CEO & Co-Founder
Sarah Papasodaro was burned out with her job in France and decided to head abroad in early 2014. She received a position in NYC and gained new respect for the expat process.
Leveraging her 5 years of experience as a software consultant, she is highly skilled at understanding customers’ needs and managing the development of a tech platform that will efficiently solve their problems.
What started as a blog about her experiences quickly gained a flurry of new readers, reaching 500,000 visitors in just two years and securing an impressive 65,000 subscribers to her newsletter in three years. It eventually evolved into USponsor Me, along with a new full-time career. Sarah is a talented business developer with 3 years of experience in startup creation and management.
Read Max & Sarah’s story here: how they landed in the USA until they got the Green Card!
Tom Lous
Big Data & Machine Learning Engineer
Tom Lous is a Big Data & Machine Learning Software Engineer.
He develops Scala and Python software that runs on a Spark cluster or dockerized microservices to run on a Kubernetes cluster.
He is proficient in using various tools for setting up a robust data ingestion and processing pipeline in the cloud and deploying the results via a scalable API.
He is also skilled in cleaning and analyzing vast amounts of data, followed by training, validating, and testing machine learning models and deploying them in production.
Maxime Hilaire
Technical Advisor
Maxime Hilaire holds a Master’s in computer science and has 9 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer. He has worked on more than ten successful projects now in production for clients such as Airbus, Sharp, and Fox, among others.
Maxime’s challenges as a tech lead are to design and build cloud apps that manage tens of millions of documents at scale, allowing applications to ingest terabytes of data smoothly at the “speed of light.”
Maxime’s two AWS certifications (Developer and Architect) and in-depth knowledge of NoSQL, big data, Cloud Computing, and JavaScript have enabled him to build our platform to its current level.
He is also a true cost-efficiency expert. He designed USponsorMe architecture to be more than 10 times cheaper than most existing companies with the same technical challenges, while not sacrificing stability in the least, and designing a very fast and efficient UI.
Our J-1 Partners
A unique experience in the USA is priceless…
Because it will lead you to amazing professional opportunities that you do not know yet 😉
— USponsorMe Team
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