Sean O'connor
Director Of Engineering at Datadog
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSean O'connor is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Datadog in Denver. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Django, Linux systems administration, AWS, and JavaScript with proven leadership from roles at Bitly and as a startup CTO/co-founder. Sean contributes to notable open-source Python projects—adding UUID, timestamp, and multi-value fields to the schematics library—demonstrating attention to robust data modeling and cross-project collaboration. Comfortable both shipping backend features and resolving complex merge conflicts, he brings an operator’s mindset to reliability and developer productivity.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Marist College
Github Skills (11)
data-structures10
type-system10
typescript10
typesc10
data-serialization10
validation10
schema10
python10
validations10
data-structure10
serialization10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
schematics/schematics
Sep 2011 - Feb 2012
Python Data Structures for Humans™.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the development of data structures and related functionalities within the `schematics/schematics` repository. They added new field types, including a UUIDField and a TimeStampField, enhancing the library's capabilities. The user also integrated a MultiValueDictField, expanding the library's ability to handle complex data structures. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging upstream changes and resolving conflicts, indicating active participation in the project's evolution.
pythondatastructuresvalidationdeserializationpython-data-structures
SeanOC/sharpy
Dec 2010 - Nov 2012
A python client for the Cheddar Getter API (https://cheddargetter.com)
Contributions:39 commits in 1 year 11 months
apipythonpython-clientpython-3getter
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