Sean Olson
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Olson is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable systems at major technology companies, currently working on Wi‑Fi for Fuchsia at Google. He has a strong background in backend, SRE, and marketplace services from prior roles at Amazon and Microsoft, and early experience integrating enterprise databases and ETL workflows. Sean contributes to open source tooling—improving packaging, build processes, and VCS plugins for the peru package manager—and brings practical DevOps sensibilities to developer-facing projects. Comfortable across systems from embedded OS networking to large advertising pipelines, he combines low-level problem solving with production-focused automation. Based in Seattle, he writes “questionable Rust code in a corner somewhere,” signaling a curiosity for systems programming beyond his day job.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (13)
dependency-management10
debian-packaging10
bash10
python10
package-management10
toolchain9
svn9
subversion9
git9
linux8
test-automation8
cicd8
documentation7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
buildinspace/peru
Feb 2014 - Sep 2016
a generic package manager, for including other people's code in your projects
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 33 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on improving the build and packaging process. They added support for Debian/Ubuntu packaging, including the creation of source packages for Launchpad PPAs, and improved versioning for Debian packages. Additionally, they implemented coveralls.io integration for code coverage and reorganized the `scripts/` directory. They also added support for Subversion as a plugin, demonstrating the user's capability in expanding the project's capabilities.
package-managerdependency-managerplugin-managerpackagingtoolchain
olson-sean-k/bismuth
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:423 commits, 309 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 6 months
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