Sean Cheatham
Chief Executive Officer at Chainless
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSean Cheatham is a pragmatic engineering leader and CEO with 11 years of experience building production systems and leading teams across blockchain, backend Scala platforms, and developer tooling. He has moved from hands-on roles—architecting Dropsource’s code generator and serving as a Scala engineer for Nike’s marketing platform—to senior blockchain engineering at Topl and current executive roles at Chainless and Conduct. Known for a maker’s mindset, Sean combines software craftsmanship with hardware tinkering and an unconventional nomadic lifestyle that underlines his focus on experimentation over certainty. He excels at translating complex technical requirements into resilient, scalable systems and thrives in early-stage product environments where iteration and adventure drive progress.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Management & Technology Computer Science, Information Management & Technology Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science
English
Github Skills (65)
cryptocurrency8
blockchain8
spray8
scala8
argonaut7
subset7
json4s7
play-json6
messaging6
sdk6
jwt6
akka6
reactive6
java6
upickle6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SeanCheatham/scala-graph
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 82 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
adaptersgraph-databasesdatabasesscalagraphql
Topl/protobuf-specs
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Protobuf specifications and definitions representing blockchain data types and communication channels
Contributions:76 reviews, 37 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 9 months
protobufblockchainblockchain-datacommunicationdata-types
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