Sean Beck
Senior Software Engineer at The Washington Post
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSean Beck is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building modern, user-focused web applications, currently shaping interactive products and games on The Washington Post Discovery team. He combines deep front-end expertise in TypeScript, React, and Vue with strong Rails and Python backend experience, and has applied UX practice end-to-end—from user interviews and A/B tests to high-fidelity designs and design systems. Sean has led cross-functional efforts to improve CI/CD, integrate Playwright testing, and automate site workflows, and he maintains a long-running freelance cooperative delivering branded sites for nonprofits and businesses. He’s fascinated by performance frontiers—experimenting with Rust, WASM, Entity-Component-System architecture, SolidJS and Astro—and brings a game-designer’s sensibility to product interaction and systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Media and Game Development Art, Interactive Media and Game Development Art at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteGraduate Certificate Web Technologies, Graduate Certificate Web Technologies at Harvard Extension School
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Github Skills (13)
wordpress8
dsa8
html6
css6
asp-net6
internet-explorer6
jquery6
progress-bar6
cycle6
facebook6
docker4
webpack4
web-application3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BostonDSA/Boston-DSA-Theme
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
A Wordpress theme for the Boston DSA Website.
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 5 months
dsawordpresscsswordpress-theme
RevivalCoop/presspack
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
💻 Wordpress like it's 2019 with Webpack and Docker
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
wordpresswebpackdocker
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