Sean Edge
Lead Software Engineer at Beyond Finance
New Providence, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Edge is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and APIs, currently leading engineering at Beyond Finance from New Providence, NJ. He has a strong enterprise background across finance and aerospace, including multi-year stints at Wells Fargo and Boeing Intelligence & Analytics, and a history of progressing from contractor roles to senior and lead positions. Comfortable shipping production-grade services and improving developer tooling, he contributes to OSS—most notably enhancements to a popular GitLab Ruby wrapper and CLI around branch, tag, and repo file operations with accompanying tests. Sean values work/life balance and prefers established companies over startups, is open to remote roles, and brings pragmatic problem-solving and steady leadership rather than headline-grabbing hustle. His Linux and systems roots (early roles in Linux engineering and administration) give him practical operational insight that complements his backend development expertise.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Randolph High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
gitlab10
gitlab-api10
ruby10
rubygems9
rest-api8
git8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NARKOZ/gitlab
Apr 2014 - Jun 2018
Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 103 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the GitLab REST API wrapper and CLI, focusing on the implementation of features related to branches, tags, and repository files. They introduced new methods for interacting with these Gitlab API endpoints, adding functionality for protecting and creating branches and tags. Their work included writing tests to validate the new methods and modifying existing tests to ensure compatibility with the API changes.
ruby-wrappergitlab-apiapiruby-gemgitlab-cli
Beyond-Finance/active_force
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Use Salesforce as an Active Model
Contributions:15 releases, 43 reviews, 60 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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