Sean Mccolgan
Senior Software Engineer at Optera
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Mccolgan is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, RESTful APIs, and devops tooling for CI/CD, logging, and monitoring. He has shipped production microservices and high-throughput platforms at companies like Simple Energy/Uplight and now Optera, including an order fulfillment system that processed hundreds of millions in GMV and instant rebate services for utility customers. Comfortable across Python and web stacks, he has a strong background in automating tests and distributed work infrastructure from his Qualcomm tenure and early full‑stack roles. Based in Rochester, NY, Sean pairs hands‑on implementation with operational ownership and enjoys tinkering with language learning and side projects hosted on his GitHub. Notably, he blends startup agility and enterprise rigor—designing scalable services while building the deployment and monitoring tooling that keeps them reliable.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science at Alfred State College - SUNY College of Technology
Github Skills (14)
recurrent7
donation7
pygame6
mastodon-api5
python5
crowdfunding5
pico-85
mastodon3
pyglet3
cli3
command-line-interface3
federation2
pixelfed2
sustainability1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mccolgst/pico-8-cartridges
Jul 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 142 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 1 month
cartridgespico-8pico
hortonew/SpaceInvaders-Like-Game
Jun 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pythonpygletpygamepython3invaders
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