Sean Leavey
Software Engineer
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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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.
11 years of coding experience
German, English
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
compression10
argparse10
airplay10
wordpress-plugin10
python10
backup10
text-files10
audio10
music10
pulseaudio10
graph-algorithms10
forge10
multiroom-audio10
wordpress10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SeanDS/pinto
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
SeanDS/ciecplib
Jul 2017 - Jan 2022
Python client for LIGO.ORG-authenticated HTTP(S) requests
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
authenticatedligopythonpython-client
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