Summary
Sean Mcgrath is a Director of Engineering in New York with 11 years of experience building and scaling full-stack web and mobile products across startups and high-growth marketplaces. He combines hands-on expertise from infrastructure and backend services to mobile and frontend, having led teams that drove multi-million-dollar revenue growth and delivered core systems like event catalogs and booking platforms. As a former co-founder and CTO, he’s comfortable with fundraising, hiring, and instituting engineering best practices (CI/CD, SRE-style ops, incident management) to turn rapid product iteration into reliable production. At SeatGeek he introduced AI coding tools company-wide and personally shipped critical backend services, demonstrating a bias for both tooling and delivery. He excels as a player-coach: recruiting, mentoring, and executing complex technical roadmaps with product partners. His background in physics and early work on scientific instrumentation reflect an analytical mindset and a knack for turning experimental ideas into production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics. Minor in Computer Science. Integrated Concentration in Natural Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics. Minor in Computer Science. Integrated Concentration in Natural Science at Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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