Sean Blakey
Principal Engineer - People Engine at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Blakey is a Principal Engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale, production-critical systems at Amazon, currently leading the People Engine and HR datamesh efforts from Seattle. He blends deep Java and Python expertise with practical experience in C/C++, TypeScript, Perl, and distributed data platforms to build resilient dataflows, RBAC/ABAC controls, and auditing for sensitive HR workloads. Sean excels at coaching lead engineers, running rigorous design reviews, and turning research—often documented in extensive personal note collections—into working proofs of concept, including early LLM prototyping. His background spans building global hourly Time & Attendance systems, IoT-driven data ingestion, and evolving architectures to retire third-party systems, demonstrating both operational ownership and strategic technical direction. Known for simplifying complex systems and growing teams from small operations into full-featured development groups, he pairs hands-on coding with thoughtful mentorship and cross-organizational influence.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied and Computational Math Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied and Computational Math Sciences at University of Washington
Github Skills (5)
obsidian10
aws-sdk8
aws7
sdk7
ruby6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sblakey/llm-bedrock-anthropic
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Plugin for https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/ to enable talking with Claude Instant and ClaudeV2 models on AWS Bedrock
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 6 months
sblakey/obsidian-quip
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Obsidian plugin to publish notes to Quip.com
Contributions:11 releases, 87 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
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