Summary
Sean Cashin is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience, currently driving architecture and delivery at Instacart in San Francisco. A seasoned Ruby on Rails web developer, he has built consumer-facing e-commerce and social networking products as well as enterprise systems, progressing through senior engineering and leadership roles at Instacart, VMware, and Socialcast. He pairs full‑stack Rails and JavaScript expertise (Ruby, Rails, jQuery, MySQL) with production ops skills—Chef, Puppet, AWS—and has a track record automating deployments and enabling behind‑the‑firewall enterprise installs. Trained in Informatics at UC Irvine, Sean blends hands-on coding with strategic engineering leadership to deliver practical, scalable infrastructure and product solutions.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Informatics, BS, Informatics at University of California, Irvine