Sean Mcgary
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Eigen Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSean Mcgary is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating cloud-native backend services and APIs, currently leading architecture at Eigen Labs. He specializes in microservices, message queues, containerization with Docker, and Kubernetes orchestration, and routinely uses Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python to deliver scalable systems. Sean has a strong track record at startups and scale-ups—designing production-grade telemetry, CI/CD, and event-driven architectures at companies like Coinbase, Permission.io, and SpareFoot. He pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, having rebuilt critical platforms, migrated datastores, and led teams through large refactors and cloud migrations. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect, he also experiments publicly (see his GitHub and a playful functional JS repo implementing a goal function) and enjoys picking up new languages to match the right tool to the problem. Based in Austin, he combines deep systems knowledge with pragmatic delivery across distributed systems, observability, and developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
functional-design10
functional10
refactor9
refactoring9
graph6
overflow6
hidden6
json6
extjs6
css6
combobox6
codeigniter6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
eatnumber1/goal
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
g()()()()('al') → "gooooal"
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on implementing the core functionality of the `goal` function. They experimented with different approaches to achieving the desired outcome, including function structure and scoping. The user refactored the code, removed debugging statements and eventually implemented and merged changes to the main branch.
golang
Layr-Labs/protocol-apis
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 reviews, 58 PRs, 98 pushes in 5 months
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