Sean L
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean L is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer and platform iOS products at Google and Amazon, now focused on Business Messaging at Google DeepMind. He led mobile messaging and several high-profile Maps initiatives—Live View (AR) and Offline Maps—combining product-focused leadership with hands-on iOS engineering. Sean has deep expertise in mobile tooling and quality, evidenced by contributions to popular Xcode plugins like ClangFormat-Xcode and XVim where he improved formatting stability and test coverage. His background spans cross-platform mobile systems, low-level C++ tooling from research, and designing developer-facing languages and compilers early in his career. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he blends shipping at scale for billions of users with a pragmatic attention to developer experience and long-lived system reliability.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree of engineering, Digital Media Technology, Master degree of engineering, Digital Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
vi10
vim10
objective-c10
xcode10
xcode-plugin10
clang-format10
keybindings10
plugin10
test-automation10
testing10
regular-expression9
ios8
swift8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
travisjeffery/ClangFormat-Xcode
Feb 2015 - Nov 2020
Xcode plug-in to to use clang-format from in Xcode and consistently format your code with Clang
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 14 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Xcode clang-format plugin. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to code formatting, such as incorrect indentation and selection range handling. The user also made improvements to the code formatting logic, ensuring accurate formatting even when the formatted code is the same as the original, and added functionality to format code without explicit selection.
objective-cclangclang-formatpluginplug-in
XVimProject/XVim
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Xcode plugin for Vim keybindings
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 14 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean's contributions focused on improving the quality and test coverage of the XVim plugin. They added new test cases to address specific issues, including those related to search and replace functionality and word boundary behavior. Their work involved writing test cases and modifying existing tests to ensure the plugin's behavior aligned with the expected outcomes. The user's testing efforts spanned various scenarios, including replace commands and visual mode actions.
vimvim-keybindingskeybindingsmacosxcode
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