Summary
Sean O'connor is a results-driven fintech engineering leader with over a decade of experience building high-availability data platforms and products. Currently VP of Engineering, Data at Grata, he leads a 25-person team unifying complex private-market datasets and modernizing a stack spanning Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, Postgres, and Elasticsearch. Sean has repeatedly scaled global engineering organizations and guided cloud migrations and platform integrations during M&A, balancing strategic roadmap ownership with hands-on execution. He built BondNav and helped grow it into InspereX customership and revenue, demonstrating a rare blend of product-led engineering and commercial impact. Notably, he’s implemented streaming-first architectures, multi-layer data quality programs, and AI-assisted labeling/DataOps to accelerate ML initiatives. Based in California, he combines operator discipline with a curiosity for developer productivity and practical AI tooling adoption.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer