Sean Chen
Jack Strandberg Missouri Endowed Associate Professor Of Piano
Leawood, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Chen is the Jack Strandberg Missouri Endowed Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a lifelong performing pianist with over a decade of professional experience. Trained at Juilliard and Yale (BM, MM, Artist Diploma), he balances a sustained academic career—including a long Millsap Artist-in-Residence—alongside an active private performance practice. Based in Leawood, Kansas, he brings conservatory-level technique and pedagogy to both university students and public performance, with teaching roots at Yale and Juilliard. Beyond performance and instruction, he contributes to practical tech projects in the open-source space, notably improving weather and air-quality integrations in the widely used Home Assistant project—an unexpected intersection of musical artistry and software collaboration. This blend of high-level artistry, committed mentorship, and hands-on problem solving defines his professional profile.
11 years of coding experience
Artist Diploma, Piano Performance, Artist Diploma, Piano Performance at Yale School of MusicMM, Piano, MM, Piano at The Juilliard SchoolPrivate Studio Edward Francis
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
sensor-fusion10
sensor10
python10
home-automation10
asyncio10
data-parsing9
api9
apim9
iot9
type-checking8
typehinting8
autocomplete6
shell6
intellisense6
command-line6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on enhancing the Home Assistant core by implementing new features and improving code quality within the National Weather Service (NWS) and AirNow integrations. Their contributions included refactoring code by replacing unit constants with enums, adding a timestamp sensor for observation data, and improving type hints for better code maintainability. Additionally, the user corrected timezone parsing for AirNow observations and added a PM10 sensor to the AirNow integration, expanding its capabilities.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
kamiyo/core
Dec 2022 - Aug 2024
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Contributions:43 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 8 months
raspberry-pihouseprivacy-firstprivacygarden
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