Sean Howell
Senior Software Engineer Clojure at OneStudyTeam
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Howell is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently focusing on Clojure at OneStudyTeam in Reston, VA. He brings long-tenured enterprise experience from comScore and early hands-on development at Near Infinity, combining production-grade engineering with strong refactoring and maintenance instincts. A US citizen with MS and BS degrees from George Mason University, he pairs formal software engineering training with practical problem-solving across the stack. Sean is also an active open-source contributor, having improved stability and cleaned GUI and backend code in the widely used GitExtensions project by fixing null reference errors and modernizing integrations with the GitHub API. Known for quietly improving code health, he excels at unglamorous but critical work that reduces technical debt and prevents incidents.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at George Mason University
Github Skills (6)
gitextensions10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
git8
git-client8
gitk8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
gitextensions/gitextensions
Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on fixing null reference exceptions within the GithubPlugin. They also made cleaning and refactoring changes in several files, improving the code's structure and maintainability. The user's contributions involved modification of C# files, demonstrating an understanding of the GitExtensions codebase and its integration with the Github API. They also worked on cleaning and refactoring of the GUI part of the project.
repositoriesmicrosoft-visual-studiowindowsgit-clientgitextensions
whyrusleeping/gitextensions
Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
Contributions:12 commits in 1 day
a-shellshell-extensiongit-repositoryvscodegitextensions
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