Summary
Sean Mccleary is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling web and cloud systems, now serving as Director of Engineering (DevOps) at Modus Create. He combines hands-on experience from early web development and platform architecture to executive roles as CTO and Director of Technology, shepherding teams through migrations, CI/CD, and AWS scaling. Sean has led distributed engineering organizations, hiring and managing cross-functional teams while instituting rigorous SDLC practices and developer tooling. His background spans low-level systems (C++, PHP, Java) to modern DevOps workflows, and he has specific experience optimizing video processing pipelines and cost-saving AWS architectures. Comfortable in both technical trenches and strategic planning, he brings an operator’s mindset to reliability and performance. Based in the U.S., he pairs entrepreneurial instincts from founding a startup with corporate engineering discipline to deliver pragmatic, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Portland State University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oregon State University
English, German, Spanish