Sean Newell

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Employment History

1. Administrate

   November 2020 - Today @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Edinburgh, Scotland UK

   Staff Engineer (Engineering Manager)

   👫 Included People Managing

   Training Infrastructure for multinational companies ranging from manufacturing, shipping, to software.

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   • Consolidated CI and CD into GH Actions from disparate and in house built tooling, reducing time to deploy by 50%.
   • Delivered subscription based learning experience for students.
   • Helped drive cycle times down to <5 calendar days.

   Full Stack Staff Engineer, some months as an Engineering Manager, then back as an IC. Worked in Python/Typescript/React/PHP cross functional teams delivering value across the training, learning, and core domains based on the team's area of ownership (tribe & clan ownership model). Primary API is a python GQL Api that coforms to the Relay Specification consumed by various clients, a combination of TS React Apps and node apis.

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   • Migrated all customers off a legacy LMS system, reducing waste and on going maintenace costs.
   • Participated in the Front End Guild, leading the adoption of key practices and proposing technologies and patterns like Micro Front Ends
   • Delivered an Embedded React Component utility to hasten the transition off legacy UIs.
   • Extended the custom field system to support a single field definition across multiple entities.
   • Introduced, evangelized, and used Structured Logs for better dashboards, and success metrics from AWS to Grafana.

2. Paycom

   May 2018 - November 2020 @ 🇺🇸 Dallas, TX USA

   Team Lead

   👫 Included People Managing

   Full HCM suite managing everything from hire to retire.

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   • Delivered a full typescript+react app with a C# backend within a PHP monolith, delivering orders of magnitude performance (sub 50ms 99th response times).
   • Added notification aggregation in a RMQ C# microservice, scaling to handle burst traffic (>30K msgs <1min) while adding aggregation feature.
   • Delivered a bitbucket bot to automate shift left testing methodologies and processes leveraging k8s and ephemeral test environments.

   Full Stack (PHP / C# / Typescript / React) Engineer and Team Lead delivering product value across multiple apps and domains from an OCR C# app to ingest data, a data pipeline into an ElasticSearch cluster with F#, a high performance notification service, and the notification settings area of the app for employees and managers.

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   • Pioneered and documented the initial standards of Helm Charts and k8s yaml for the k8s transition.
   • Piloted first containerization project with our C# Notifications API.
   • Authored all the Splunk dashboards for monitoring and value realization of ongoing projects.

3. Dorian Business Systems (-> Connexeo -> Vanco)

   January 2017 - May 2018 @ 🇺🇸 Dallas, TX USA

   Software Engineer

   US National leader in full service band management software form instrument inventory to student festival management.

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   • Introduced a new full stack during an acquisition, consolidating all bespoke solo and ensemble projects into a new SaaS platform.
   • Swapped sms/mms/phone provider to cut related costs by 50%.

   Full Stack (JSCript / VBScript / NodeJS / Typescript / Javascript / PHP) Engineer. Worked on features of the main music organization software, CHARMS, used nationally across nearly all academic music programs. (Fun fact, I was in their databse from ensembles I performed during my school years as a Trumpet Player.)