Sean Quinn
Founder at Alkaemic
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Quinn is a founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling cross-functional teams and production systems from Boston. He blends hands-on architecture and backend development with people-first management—prioritizing structured feedback, psychological safety, and clear ownership to accelerate team impact. Sean has led engineering at Klaviyo and Pluralsight and founded Alkaemic, repeatedly delivering platform improvements, reduced operational load, and customer-facing features ahead of schedule. He is pragmatic about experimentation and data-driven decision making, and collaborates closely with product, design, data science, security, and infra to de-risk bold bets. An active open-source contributor, he improved Sentry’s Symfony SDK by enhancing lifecycle event handling and hardening exception flows, showing attention to developer ergonomics and maintainability. He pairs technical rigor with a belief that the best systems emerge when engineers have runway to innovate and grow.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
English, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
phpunit10
php10
exception-handling10
event-dispatching10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
bundle9
testing9
sdk9
symfony-bundle9
sentry9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-symfony
Mar 2017 - May 2017
The official Symfony SDK for Sentry (sentry.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on enhancing the Sentry Symfony SDK by adding support for lifecycle events, specifically `SET_USER_CONTEXT` and `PRE_CAPTURE`, offering developers more customization options. They modified the `ExceptionListener` and added tests to the `ExceptionListenerTest` class, demonstrating a focus on exception handling and event dispatching within the Symfony framework. Furthermore, the user refactored the code base, improving code style and resolving minor build issues by updating dependencies.
sentry-iosentrybundlephpsymfony-bundle
swquinn/jackson-datatype-json-lib
Nov 2013 - Nov 2019
A Jackson-datatype binder for the "net.sf.json" library.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 6 years 1 month
datatypejson-libraryjacksonnet-sf-jsonbinder
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