Sean Pfeifer
Senior Manager, Engineering at Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Pfeifer is a senior engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building production-grade backend systems and personalization at scale, currently managing a team at Blizzard Entertainment that delivers soft-realtime recommendation and personalization services for major titles like Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, and Hearthstone. He blends hands-on engineering (Go, Java, MySQL, Redis, Docker, TypeScript) with product-focused collaboration across game teams to improve in-game stores, decks, and personalized player experiences. Previously he founded a streaming SaaS used by creators and led real-time simulation rendering work, giving him a rare mix of startup product ownership and low-level graphics/system optimization. Known for mentoring engineers and defining technical direction, he also holds a master’s in software engineering and is based in Irvine, California.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Github Skills (31)
programming-language10
discord10
interpreter10
go10
notification10
discord-bot10
golang10
goplus9
optimizely9
compiler9
odin9
twine8
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
seanpfeifer/rigging
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Go "rigging", simple, opinionated packages that are useful for spinning up new projects without introducing many dependencies
Contributions:12 releases, 56 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 6 months
golangdependenciesrigginggo
seanpfeifer/coffeebeanbot
Aug 2017 - Sep 2022
A Discord bot created to help me through my day. Its current focus is to handle "Pomodoro Technique"-style timeboxing notification.
Contributions:17 releases, 1 review, 107 commits in 5 years 1 month
golangpomodorodiscordbotpomodoro-technique
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