Sean Caffery
Staff Engineer at Ferocia Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Caffery is a Staff Engineer based in Melbourne with 15+ years building high-performance, cloud-native systems and leading architectural modernisation across fintech and SaaS. He combines deep backend expertise (Kafka, DynamoDB, Go, distributed databases) with pragmatic infrastructure work—having driven database migrations, Kubernetes upgrades, and cost-saving optimisations that cut infrastructure spend and latency significantly. A hands-on technical leader, he’s delivered event-processing platforms capable of 10k+ messages/sec and re-architected menu and export services to double delivery speed and reduce operational failure modes. He mentors engineers, shapes cross-team strategy, and champions tooling and testing practices that improve developer feedback loops. Outside production services he’s contributed front-end improvements to the popular Light Table IDE, showing a full-stack curiosity that spans editor UX to large-scale data pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering (Distinction), Software Engineering (Distinction) at RMIT University
Github Skills (11)
clojure10
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uid10
ide10
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ui-design10
editor10
clojure-cli10
clojurescript10
css9
javascript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LightTable/LightTable
Feb 2014 - Aug 2014
The Light Table IDE ⛺
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the Light Table IDE's user interface, with commits focused on improving the editor and workspace functionalities. They implemented features such as closing tabs via middle/cmd-click, adding gutter functionality with customization options, and enhancing the plugin manager's visual feedback. Additionally, the user refined the workspace file management system by adding a duplicate file option and improving the appearance of rename input fields.
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seancaffery/qmk_firmware
Apr 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
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