Sean Perkins
Principal Architect, API & UI at ABBYY
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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Sean Perkins is a Distinguished Engineer and product-focused technical leader with a decade of experience designing modern UI and API platforms for enterprise customers. He architects scalable frontend ecosystems and microfrontend strategies, having driven CI/CD and build-time optimizations that cut PR build times from 20 minutes to under 5. A prolific open-source contributor and former Engineering Manager at Ionic, Sean has hands-on expertise improving popular projects like Ionic Framework, Stencil, and native Firebase integrations—work that spans cross-framework components, dark-mode tooling, and mobile authentication flows. At ABBYY he leads UI/API strategy, mentors distributed teams, and directs R&D into AI-driven experiences and extensibility platforms. He combines startup consulting and founder experience with Fortune 500 engagements, uniquely blending product sensitivity, developer ergonomics, and robust platform governance. Colocated in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sean is as comfortable shipping developer tools and documentation improvements as he is setting long-term architecture and security standards.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Computer Programming, Associate’s Degree Computer Programming at Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegeHigh School, High School at Vicksburg High School
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Github Skills (36)
ionice10
javascript10
ios10
component-development10
css10
user-authentication10
typescript10
authentication10
web-components10
stencil10
ionic10
nativescript10
facebook10
android-developer10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ionic-team/ionic-framework
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1464 reviews, 654 commits, 971 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sean's contributions primarily involve implementing and fixing features related to Ionic Framework components, specifically the `<ion-datetime>`, `<ion-input>`, `<ion-textarea>`, and `<ion-segment>` elements. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality and appearance of these components, addressing issues related to form controls, styling, and responsiveness. They also improved the usability of the `<ion-radio>` and `<ion-toggle>` components. The user's contributions extend to working with the components in an angular project.
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ionic-team/ionic-docs
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:400 reviews, 135 commits, 396 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on developing the "playground" component for the Ionic documentation site. Their contributions included setting up the initial component structure, adding a report issue button, and implementing a toggle for source code visibility. They also worked on creating a button to copy the source code and included the ability to open examples in Stackblitz. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the documentation's interactivity and user experience.
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