Sean Rester
Lead Software Engineer at Pluto TV
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Rester is a Lead Software Engineer based in Michigan with a decade of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems across streaming, observability, and cloud-native platforms. He has progressed from systems analyst and software architect roles to senior and lead engineering positions at organizations including Quicken Loans, Dynatrace, Replicated, and Pluto TV, blending hands-on development with team leadership. Sean contributes to open-source tooling around Kubernetes delivery—improving UX and front-end performance in the widely used replicatedhq/kots project—highlighting a practical focus on developer experience and scalable operations. He is comfortable refactoring complex React codepaths, resolving subtle rendering and filtering bugs, and adding polish like CLI shell completions that meaningfully improve day-to-day workflows. Known for curiosity and continuous learning, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking to ship reliable features that matter to users and operators alike.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Walled Lake Western High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Oakland Community College
English
Github Skills (8)
golang10
go10
react10
cobra9
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
javascript8
webpages8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
replicatedhq/kots
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
KOTS provides the framework, tools and integrations that enable the delivery and management of 3rd-party Kubernetes applications, a.k.a. Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:75 reviews, 375 commits, 117 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the KOTS platform by adding command-line completions for both `kots` and `kotsadm` applications, improving user experience with shell integrations. They also fixed analysis filtering issues within the web interface by modifying the `AnalyzerInsights.jsx` component and added a filter for errors and warnings. Furthermore, the user fixed rendering issues caused by constant ping updates and refactored a React component to be a pure component to improve performance.
golangpartykubernetes-applicationsshelfgo
motorcityfurrycon/syn-test
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
This is for testing and supposed to be public
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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