Sean Heukels is a multidisciplinary leader and engineer based in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience combining technical backend contributions and people-centered roles. He contributes to notable open-source e-commerce work such as OpenMage/magento-lts, focusing on reliability fixes like cron scheduling, email re-sends and PDF/sitemap generation. As Member of Team CHO at Autonomy and Chief Happiness Officer at his coaching venture, he blends product-minded engineering with organizational culture, coaching and mental-health expertise. His background spans startups, healthcare program management and senior consulting at Accenture, reflecting both operational rigor and entrepreneurial initiative. Trained in transactional analysis and coaching, he brings uncommon psychological insight into team dynamics and change management alongside his technical practice.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MsC, MsC at UMCU
Voortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs, Voortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs at Baudartius College Zutphen
MsC, MsC at Universiteit Utrecht ism Nijenrode Business Universiteit
Psycholoog Transactionele Analyse, Psycholoog Transactionele Analyse at NVTA
Counseling & Coaching) Transactional Analyses (psychology), Counseling & Coaching) Transactional Analyses (psychology) at Theo van der Heijden Institut
Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Migrate easily from Magento Community Edition in minutes! Download the source code for free or contribute to OpenMage LTS | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:40 commits, 85 PRs, 345 comments in 7 years
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor improvements within the Magento codebase. They addressed issues related to re-sending order emails, cron job scheduling, and catalog price rule calculations. Additionally, the user made changes to sitemap generation and adjusted PDF file generation. These contributions focused on enhancing the core functionality and addressing specific issues within the e-commerce platform.
Contributions:104 commits, 20 PRs, 114 pushes in 5 years 10 months
ltsmagento
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