Sean Mcnamara
Senior Backend Engineer at Bumble
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSean Mcnamara is a Head of Engineering with 12 years' experience designing and operating scalable backend systems and data-driven platforms across Go, PHP, and Python. He has led engineering teams from building SaaS and in-venue hospitality systems to powering recommendation and discovery infrastructure for a global dating app serving tens of millions of users. Known for a pragmatic focus on distributed systems, performance optimisation, and reliable production services, he blends hands-on coding with people leadership. Early work on digital archives and telecom testing platforms gives him a strong grounding in APIs, search, and observability that informs his operational instincts. Based in England, he thrives on solving gritty engineering problems and shipping robust, measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (151)
lichess10
chess10
mongodb10
jira10
functional-programming10
aggregator9
linux9
codepen9
time-tracking9
phpdoc9
toggl9
jruby9
stream9
git-history9
streaming9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Seanmcn/My-Code-Portfolio
Jun 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
Seanmcn/php-represent
Mar 2016 - Dec 2021
A PHP library for http://represent.opennorth.ca/
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 9 months
php-libraryphp
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