Sean Hamilton is an engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on and leadership experience building mobile and web applications, now leading engineering at Instagram after a multi-year tenure driving product equity and messaging infrastructure at Meta. He excels at mentoring distributed teams and translating mission-critical product requirements into scalable architectures, drawing on a strong background in database and backend design dating back to enterprise roles at Bank of America. Sean has led engineering organizations across startups and larger firms—directing teams at Nomad Health, MoviePass, and TIAA—where he combined delivery focus with pragmatic technical stewardship. His career blends deep implementation experience (including early Android development) with strategic leadership, enabling rapid iteration without sacrificing reliability. Based in Vancouver, he brings a results-oriented mindset and a knack for unifying cross-functional stakeholders to ship impactful features. Notably, he moves comfortably between startup scrappiness and the process rigor required at hyperscale platforms.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at New York Institute of Technology
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