Sean Hagstrom
Software Engineer at Status.im
United States
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Top SchoolSean Hagstrom is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, information-dense interfaces for web and mobile platforms. He has a track record of combining classic web UI patterns with custom canvas rendering and editor architectures to scale visualizations from hundreds to thousands of interactive nodes while preserving responsive interaction. His work spans both frontend and backend domains—building production spatial exploration features at Fabric, cross-platform mobile features and privacy-focused push systems at Status, and backend document-processing services with Python and FastAPI. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved code quality and formatter logic in the Roc language and contributed UI and refactoring work to projects like status-mobile and the request library. Trained in virtual and augmented reality at Goldsmiths, he brings an experimental, research-informed perspective to interaction design and state systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance performance, maintainability, and user-focused detail.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Virtual and Augmented Reality, Master of Arts - MA Virtual and Augmented Reality at Goldsmiths, University of London
English
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
formatter10
roc-lang10
uid10
front-end-development10
formatters10
mobile10
nodejs10
rust10
refactoring10
ui-design9
code-organization9
lang9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-mobile
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:502 reviews, 149 PRs, 752 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean's contributions primarily revolve around developing the Status mobile application, focusing on enhancing the user interface and user experience. The commits demonstrate a consistent involvement in UI improvements, particularly related to contact profiles, contact request flows, and community features, including implementing buttons, displaying notifications, and managing the layout and appearance of user-interface elements. They also made various code cleanups and refactoring.
ethereumwalletiosmobilemessenger
request/request
Aug 2014 - May 2015
🏊🏾 Simplified HTTP request client.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 15 PRs, 29 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core functionalities of the `request/request` library. Their contributions involved cleaning up and organizing the `index.js` file, extracting helper functions into a separate file, and correcting some existing bugs within the codebase. They also addressed timeout-related issues and updated the code to follow lint conventions.
apihttp-requesthttp-clientjavascriptsimplified
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