Sean Klein
Engineering Manager, Commerce at The Motley Fool
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSean Klein is an engineering manager with 10 years of experience building and modernizing commerce and enterprise systems, currently leading Commerce engineering at The Motley Fool. He combines hands-on technical delivery—migration of .NET stacks to .NET Core, Docker, Kubernetes, and CICD automation—with people-first leadership, having designed and run a Learning & Development program that achieved near-universal conversion of participants to full-time engineers. Sean has a track record of architecting event-driven, microservice platforms, authoring reusable frameworks that cut developer effort, and delivering contract-testing ecosystems to enable safer deployments. He scales teams and practices thoughtfully, introducing OKRs, mentorship, and cross-functional initiatives while coaching engineers at all levels. Based in Virginia, he pairs an MS in Software Engineering with a BBA and even a culinary diploma, reflecting a practical, creative problem-solving style that surfaces in both technical and people-focused wins.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Culinary Arts Diploma, Culinary Arts, Culinary Arts Diploma, Culinary Arts at L'Acadamie de CuisineBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance, Computer Information Systems at James Madison UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering at George Mason University
English
Github Skills (9)
pastebin8
devcontainer5
javascript5
groovy4
vscode-extension4
vscode3
visual-studio-code3
docker3
visual-studio3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
klein2ms/base-devcontainer
Oct 2020 - Aug 2024
A base development container for Visual Studio Code.
Contributions:23 PRs, 34 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 9 months
visual-studio-codevisual-studio-extensionvscodevscode-extensiondocker
klein2ms/python-devcontainer
Sep 2020 - Oct 2023
A Python development container for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:36 PRs, 40 pushes, 33 branches in 3 years 1 month
pythonvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiondocker
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