SeanĀ Noonan
Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolSean Noonan is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of deep infrastructure and distributed storage experience, now at Snowflake after leading Google's global Site Reliability Engineering for production storage systems. He builds and scales high-performing teams and resilient storage platforms, having managed hundreds of engineers responsible for both customer-facing cloud storage and core infrastructure like Colossus. His background spans high-frequency trading systems at Two Sigma to research-grade storage work at NEC Labs, giving him a rare blend of low-latency systems, cloud orchestration, and long-term storage design expertise. Based in Dublin, he pairs hands-on technical rigor with strategic leadership, often surfacing operational improvements that reduce risk across large-scale distributed systems. Notably, his career includes rebuilding critical order-handling and private cloud platforms early on, reflecting an ability to both design foundational systems and deliver pragmatic operational solutions.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelorās Degree Mathematics, Bachelorās Degree Mathematics at Rutgers University
English, German, French
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Github Skills (21)
http-authentication10
authentication10
spnego10
hsts10
nginx10
gnome6
gnome-shell6
simplify4
mysql4
linux4
etch4
ruby4
sequel4
database4
user-experience4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stnoonan/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module
Apr 2013 - Oct 2022
SPNEGO HTTP Authentication Module for nginx
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 64 commits in 9 years 8 months
nginxauthenticationspnegohttp-authenticationhsts
facebookarchive/flashcache
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
A general purpose, write-back block cache for Linux.
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
linuxcache-blockpurposewrite-backcache
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