Sean Chitwood
Lead Software Engineer at Groupon
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Chitwood is a Consulting Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience specializing in SOA services, performance testing, and automating DevOps workflows. He has held senior SDET and lead engineering roles at Microsoft and Groupon, where he helped transition a monolith into an ecosystem of services, built Dockerized test environments, and automated support and deployment tasks to free developer time. Known as a stabilizing influence on teams, he focuses on reliability, measurable performance, and making testing both more reliable and self-service. He applies statistical methods (e.g., Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests) to automate data comparisons and improve test fidelity—bringing a data-driven approach to quality engineering. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, Sean is proud of his contributions at Microsoft and Groupon and continues consulting to solve hard backend and performance challenges.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Texas State University
Github Skills (25)
azerothcore10
csharp10
vtt10
docker-compose9
character-sheet9
docker8
golang8
docker-image8
kubernetes7
orchestration6
go6
container6
powerdns4
fortress3
dwarf3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
darkmane/traveller_data
Feb 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 8 months
darkmane/herocombat
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
combatreactreact-nativesheetnodejs
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