Sean Doherty
Chief Technology Officer at LoanWell
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSean Doherty is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Durham, NC with 15 years building and scaling application ecosystems for startups through Fortune 50 companies. He combines hands-on engineering (from Java/Spring and Node/React to iOS/Android and Unity) with product and architecture leadership, having led the design or maintenance of 100+ applications and one of the first 500 iTunes App Store apps. Known for turning technical debt into velocity, he’s delivered large cost and complexity reductions—e.g., consolidating services and cutting cloud spend by over 60% while increasing feature output—and has repeatedly improved user retention through strategic rearchitecting. A dedicated mentor and educator, he’s personally guided 150+ engineers and co-founded an elite fellowship that placed 90+ developers into industry roles. He’s an experienced public speaker on practical ML, ethics in AI and AR/VR (SXSW, StrangeLoop) and brings a rare blend of product design sensibility, data-driven decision making, and operational rigor to mission-driven fintech and environmental tech.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
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spring-mvc6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
projectshft/contact-list-old
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:77 PRs, 12 pushes, 68 comments in 2 years 7 months
projectshft/state-management
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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