Sean Morton
Staff Software Engineer at Pelotech
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Morton is a pragmatic staff software engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building backend and cloud-native systems for startups and enterprise clients. He leads teams to deliver business value quickly by prioritizing automation, tooling, and continuous improvement, and has driven Kubernetes migrations, GitOps, and multi-language backend work in Go, Java, Scala, and Node.js. Sean has repeatedly stepped into early-stage engineering roles—scaling teams from a handful to dozens—and combines hands-on coding with recruiting, client-facing collaboration, and project leadership. Notable strengths include owning core production services (Scala backends at Tally) and accelerating deployment, monitoring, and on-call practices to improve reliability and speed. He balances technical depth with pragmatic product focus, often shaping hiring and customer relationships to help companies grow.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spanish
Github Skills (113)
slick10
react-navigation10
react-native10
container-image10
logging10
react10
monitoring9
background-location9
sql9
golang9
database9
grafana9
vms9
automation9
argocd9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
seanmorton/photo_album
Sep 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
seanmorton/vim-tomorrow-night-eighties
Sep 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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