Sean Devine is a founder and CEO with 13 years of experience building enterprise software and logistics businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. He leads XBE, a category-leading operations management platform for heavy construction, and brings deep domain expertise from earlier ventures that scaled wholesale truckload marketplaces and logistics services to a successful exit. Technically hands-on, Sean architects products primarily in Ruby on Rails and Ember, and contributes to influential open-source Ruby projects such as jsonapi-resources where he focused on serializers, polymorphic relationships, and test-driven refactors. His background spans strategy, pricing, and engineering leadership at major carriers and supply-management firms, giving him a rare combination of operational rigor and product engineering craft. Known for turning complex transportation problems into pragmatic software, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a track record of measurable revenue and strategic exits.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Finance & Entrepreneurship, Bachelor's degree Finance & Entrepreneurship at Babson College
A resource-focused Rails library for developing JSON:API compliant servers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:82 commits, 46 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `cerebris/jsonapi-resources` library. They updated the serializer to correctly handle ID formatting and polymorphic relationships, and they refactored parts of the routing extension. Several commits modified test files, demonstrating a focus on testing the functionality changes. The changes primarily involved adjustments to how IDs and relationships are handled within the JSON:API framework.
Contributions:66 commits, 12 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 month
ruby-on-railsapihostrailscompliant
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Sean Devine - Founder & Chief Executive Officer at XBE LLC