Sean Isom
Founder at renderlet
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Isom is a founder and seasoned software leader with a decade of experience building high-performance teams and production systems, currently running Renderlet from New York. He spent seven years at Adobe rising from Computer Scientist to Senior Engineering Manager, leading projects that intersect graphics, visualization, distributed systems, and optimization. Passionate about WebAssembly and rendering, Sean combines deep technical craft with people leadership to deliver complex, scalable software. His background spans startups and enterprise, with hands-on roles from CTO to individual contributor that inform pragmatic architectural decisions. A W24 YC participant and computer science alum, he brings both startup grit and product-stage operational experience. Colleagues find him equal parts systems thinker and builder, often translating graphics research into deployable tooling.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
W24, W24 at Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at ArlingtonAeronautical Science, Aeronautical Science at LeTourneau University
Github Skills (40)
meta9
sandbox8
portable8
simulator7
rendering7
raytracing7
graphics-engine7
wasi7
renderer7
opengl-es6
rust6
webassembly6
jit6
directx6
aot6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
seanisom/flightsimlib
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Microsoft Flight Simulator C++ Common libs
Contributions:4 releases, 72 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 11 months
flightcppmicrosoft-flight-simulatorsimulatorlibs
renderlet/wander
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
wander - the Wasm Renderer
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year
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