Sean Leavey
Software Engineer
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
SeniorSean Leavey is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience specializing in instrumentation for gravitational wave interferometers, having progressed from ground-based detectors to spaceborne systems. Based in Edinburgh, he blends programming and electronics know-how to deliver precision control and data acquisition solutions for high-sensitivity physics experiments. Comfortable across Linux, IoT and embedded environments, he pairs practical hands-on skills—woodwork, DIY and toolmaking—with rigorous engineering to prototype and iterate hardware-software systems. His work reflects a measured balance of experimental rigor and pragmatic automation, often leveraging home automation and custom electronics to accelerate development. Curious and multidisciplinary, he brings field-tested systems thinking to both mission-critical instrumentation and everyday technical challenges.
12 years of coding experience
German, English
Github Skills (200)
python10
command-line-interface10
gutenberg10
audio-player10
multiroom-audio10
wordpress10
audio10
beancount10
music10
sonos10
audio-streaming10
synchronous10
sphinx-extension10
wordpress-plugin10
rendering9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
SeanDS/zero
Jul 2018 - Feb 2024
Linear circuit simulator.
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
circuit-simulationelectronicspython
SeanDS/optivis
Oct 2014 - Dec 2016
Visualisation of optical environments
Contributions:1 release, 216 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
visualization
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.