Sean Mcilroy
Senior Programme Manager at The Linux Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSean Mcilroy is a senior programme manager with 11 years of experience orchestrating cross-industry, multi-stakeholder open source initiatives at the Linux Foundation and Joint Development Foundation. He specializes in end-to-end program delivery, governance design, and scaling collaborative standards efforts that unite Fortune 500s and startups while preserving project neutrality. Based in London, Sean leads distributed global teams and large-scale conferences, currently stewarding projects like the Green Software Foundation, Overture Maps Foundation, and Margo. His background as a senior project manager in the British Army informs a disciplined, people-centric approach to complex stakeholder alignment and risk-managed delivery. Quietly effective at turning competitive interests into sustainable partnerships, he combines strategic vision with operational rigor to drive enterprise open source adoption.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Management and Leadership, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Management and Leadership, 2:1 at Northumbria UniversityAssociate's Masters degree, Graduate in Leadership and Management (MCGI), Level 7, Associate's Masters degree, Graduate in Leadership and Management (MCGI), Level 7 at British Army
Github Skills (67)
measurement10
green-software10
realms10
specification10
lwm2m10
robust10
leshan10
uid10
mason10
screeps10
risk-assessment10
carbon-emissions10
data-mesh10
dedicated10
tla10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Green-Software-Foundation/software-standards-wg
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
GSF Standards Working Group
Contributions:176 commits, 16 PRs, 253 pushes in 11 months
uidtlameasurementworking-groupmason
margo/technical-wg
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Repository for Technical Working Group facilitation
Contributions:99 PRs, 65 pushes, 101 branches in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.