Dexter Sealy
Principal Software Engineer at 6 River Systems (Shopify)
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDexter Sealy is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of modern engineering experience and two decades of entrepreneurial product development, having co-founded, grown and successfully exited a consumer software business. He blends hands-on full-stack craftsmanship—React/TypeScript front-ends, NestJS backends and data-driven services—with practical business judgment from leading a $25M revenue product and its acquisition. At 6 River Systems (Shopify) he eliminated configuration-driven downtime by designing a YAML-backed catalog and realtime validation UI that prevented errors across thousands of settings. Previously as a software architect he improved performance, introduced feature-flag-driven delivery and launched payments features that scaled customer workflows. He pairs data-science training with systems design—able to move from ElasticNet and clustering projects to production APIs—and is known for shipping high-impact solutions under tight schedules. Based in Miami, he combines product-first thinking with deep technical ownership across teams and stacks.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
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npm2
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nodejs1
react1
cli1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dextersealy/ruby-on-tracks
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
dextersealy/shiplight
May 2018 - Jul 2021
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Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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