Sean Lopp is a Senior Engineer with a decade of experience helping data teams turn analytics workflows into reliable, production-ready systems. He’s worked across developer-focused roles at NVIDIA and Dagster Labs and before that helped customers adopt BigQuery, Looker, and Spark at Google, blending hands-on engineering with customer-facing enablement. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Dagster’s onboarding documentation, UI, and dbt integration—work that makes orchestration more accessible to teams adopting data assets. Based in Golden, Colorado with a background in applied mathematics and statistics, Sean combines product empathy with technical depth to streamline AI and data tooling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Colorado School of Mines
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:133 reviews, 10 commits, 32 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to documentation updates and examples, with a focus on the "hello-dagster" getting started guide. They also made enhancements to the user interface components, like the sidebar and header. Furthermore, the user worked on dbt integration by adding automatic metadata replacements using the manifest. In addition to these, the user contributed to the k8s configuration documentation, adding cookbooks and examples.
Contributions:18 PRs, 41 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 3 months
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