Sean Kelly
Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Alife
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Kelly is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building robotic systems, embedded controllers, and production software for surgical and industrial applications. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Adept and Auris Health before driving architecture and delivery across multiple senior engineering levels at Alife. Comfortable in ambiguous, high-stakes environments, he combines low-level servo and real-time embedded expertise with front-end data visualization improvements—his open-source contributions include UI and analytics fixes to the popular Frigate NVR project. Known for taking initiative and following through, Sean repeatedly turns complex robotics requirements into shippable products while mentoring teams and creating cross-cutting tooling. His background uniquely blends hands-on robotics firmware with polished user-facing interfaces, enabling end-to-end impact from hardware to visualization.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
ui-design8
home-automation7
home-assistant7
camera6
ai5
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
blakeblackshear/frigate
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 1 commit, 11 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on improving the user interface and data visualization. They fixed rounding issues in the display of memory usage, addressed incorrect X-axis label rotations, and resolved a bug causing undefined tooltips. Furthermore, they optimized the layout by decreasing the number of X-axis ticks on system and camera graphs. The contributions indicate a focus on enhancing the clarity and user experience of data presentation within the application.
realtimecameramqtthome-automationobject-detection
xconverge/gaggia-pid
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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