Summary
Sean Chung is a senior full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable products across education, health, gaming, and startups, now contributing at Outschool. He blends systems design and architecture with product-minded execution, having led Mentor Collective’s growth from a tiny team to a platform supporting over 2 million users and 320,000 mentorships. Sean has a strong hands-on stack spanning Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Rails, GraphQL, Redis, and AWS, and he led a move from a monolith to an event-driven modular architecture to enable global expansion. As a former CTO/co-founder of a mobile games studio, he shipped apps with 60k+ downloads and drove measurable improvements in retention and delivery cadence. Comfortable in high-ambiguity environments, he pairs rapid experimentation and UX sensibility with operational rigor—designing core communication systems that handled 100k+ daily users and tens of thousands of daily responses. Based in Quincy, MA with a CS degree from Tufts, he brings entrepreneurial instincts plus deep executional experience across frontend, backend, and infra.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bronx High School of Science
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Tufts University
Chinese, Japanese