Summary
Sean Heuer is a Staff Software Engineer and engineering generalist with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable web and CI/CD platforms from Portland, Oregon. At CircleCI he progressed from Support Engineer to a founding member of the macOS team, leading automation projects that cut on-call interruptions to nearly zero by automating hardware failure detection and remediation across ESXi infrastructure. He blends software development (Clojure, Python, Go) with infrastructure and cloud architecture (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP), plus deep hands-on expertise in Linux, macOS, containers, and observability. Sean also drives developer experience through documentation, onboarding and mentoring practices, and has a track record of using dogfooding to validate infrastructure changes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, economical datacenter and cloud solutions that balance reliability and operational simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of Oregon
English, German