Sean Brogan
Software Developer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSean Brogan is a software developer with 10+ years of experience leading system firmware teams at Microsoft, specializing in UEFI firmware design for ARM and x86 platforms and advancing cross-industry platform security and functionality. He leads Project Mu efforts, partnering with product and industry teams to ship firmware features spanning hardware, OS, and cloud, and has a track record of making firmware more robust and maintainable (notably contributing SafeInt protections and improved NVMe error reporting to the widely used edk2 project). Known for blending engineering rigor with collaboration and education, he drives full-stack innovation from silicon to cloud while mentoring peers and shaping industry best practices. Based in Kirkland, Washington, he brings a disciplined systems background dating back to roles at IBM and early engineering experience that informs pragmatic, production-ready firmware solutions.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Washington
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Github Skills (20)
uefi10
sphinx10
firmware10
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rs10
bluetooth-le10
c1110
nvme10
c1710
iot10
bluetooth10
error-handling10
home-assistant10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
EDK II
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Firmware Engineer
Back-end Developer & Firmware EngineerContributions:32 reviews, 47 commits, 43 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sean contributed to the `edk2` repository by adding a SafeIntLib class and instance to prevent integer overflow, enhancing the safety of type conversions and mathematical operations within the firmware. They also added error reporting to the NVMe driver during device initialization failures, improving the robustness and diagnostic capabilities of the firmware. Furthermore, the user fixed various spelling errors across multiple files in `FatPkg`, `PcAtChipsetPkg`, `FmpDevicePkg`, and `SecurityPkg`, increasing the readability and professionalism of the code.
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spbrogan/edk2
Aug 2018 - Feb 2023
EDK II
Contributions:53 PRs, 320 pushes, 138 branches in 4 years 7 months
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