Seanย Lafferty
Principal Software Engineer at SevOne
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolSean Lafferty is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years building cloud-native, high-throughput observability systems and full-stack products from ingestion pipelines to user-facing UIs. At SevOne he has driven architecture and implementation decisions for SaaS telemetry platforms handling millions of datapoints per second, leveraging Go, Kubernetes, gRPC, Pub/Sub and bigtable while also owning React/TypeScript front-ends. He contributes to prominent open-source observability work such as Grafana, adding backend OAuth and identity pass-through capabilities that improve secure data-source integrations. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he combines production-grade debugging of legacy monoliths with designing scalable distributed systems and a knack for pragmatic, cross-team delivery. Notably, his search and reporting innovations earned internal recognition and a patent, reflecting both system-level thinking and product impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, Computer Science, 3.7, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, Computer Science, 3.7 at University of Delaware
English
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Github Skills (23)
develop10
apidoc10
go10
api10
datasources10
backend10
datasource10
oauth10
postgresql9
data-visualizations9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
sql8
alertdialog7
alertifyjs7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 48 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on enhancing data source functionality, specifically related to OAuth authentication and pass-through capabilities within the Grafana platform. Their work involved modifying back-end code, integrating OAuth token handling, and implementing features to forward user identities. The user's commits include changes to SQL store, API proxy, and test files, indicating involvement across various backend components related to data source connectivity and security. This work likely enhances Grafana's ability to integrate with and authenticate against various data sources.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
seanlaff/simple-streaming-datasource
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
End-to-end Grafana streaming datasource example
Contributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 9 months
end-to-endstreaminggrafanadatasourcemonitoring
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