Sean Gates
Director, Software Engineering at Sweater
Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolSean Gates is a seasoned software engineering leader and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building and scaling front-end and product-driven teams across startups and enterprise companies. Currently Director of Software Engineering at LeadVenture and active in venture investing through Sweater, he blends technical leadership with product and go-to-market insight. He has held senior engineering roles at Rivian and eBay and served as CTO/VP of Engineering at Revvable, demonstrating a track record of turning customer-facing web products into reliable, ship-ready platforms. A practical mindset coach and networker, Sean mentors teams on communication, delivery cadence, and engineering culture while advising data-growth startup Datateer. Off the beaten path, he’s known for quietly improving README quality across public GitHub repos and for founding multiple startups, showing both craftsmanship and sustained entrepreneurial curiosity. Based in Tennessee, he pairs formal MIS training with hands-on experience across the full front-end stack and leadership at scale.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems at Oregon Institute of TechnologyAAS Networking, AAS Networking at Pioneer Pacific College
Stackoverflow
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135kreached
71answers
4questions
codeigniter
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
css-transitions10
ui-components10
testing10
robust10
isolation10
scanner10
barcodes10
client-side-rendering10
github-app10
html10
normalize10
storybook-addon10
dom10
nodejs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
seangates/marko
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
A friendly (and fast!) UI library from eBay that makes building web apps fun
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
ebayreactjavascriptui-libraryweb-apps
seangates/BarcodeReader
Aug 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes in 10 months
scannerbarcodesbarcode-scannercode93code128
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