Sean Griffin
Instrumentation Specialist
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Griffin is an instrumentation specialist and physicist with 12 years of experience designing and delivering hardware, firmware, and software for large-scale scientific instruments. He currently leads the data-acquisition design for IceCube-Gen2 optical sensors and the FPGA communications firmware for the IceCube Upgrade, blending electrical, mechanical, optical, and software expertise. Previously he developed detector front-end electronics and command/data handling systems at NASA Goddard and built a compact interferometer as a postdoc, demonstrating hands-on leadership from prototype to flight-capable systems. Known for taking initiative and working autonomously under tight deadlines, he brings big-data familiarity and a talent for explaining complex ideas to diverse teams. A fast learner and capable project lead, he pairs deep academic training (PhD, McGill) with practical lab and field deployment experience.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (19)
visualization8
jupyter8
bokeh7
altair7
javascript7
data-visualisation7
ipywidgets7
python7
pyodide7
browser6
holoviews6
python-scripts5
data-visualization5
manipulation4
grafana-plugin4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SeanCGriffin/scope-daq
Aug 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
WIPACrepo/wuBase-python
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:48 PRs, 87 pushes, 55 branches in 3 years 9 months
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