Sean Sill
Senior Manager Flight Software at Astra
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolSean Sill is a senior flight software manager and firmware engineer with 13 years of embedded-systems experience, currently leading flight software at Astra from Oakland. He blends deep C and low-power hardware/software codesign expertise with distributed systems thinking, having moved from hands-on principal engineering and firmware roles into technical leadership. A long-time contributor to the Open Lighting Architecture project, Sean has improved test robustness across networking and RDM subsystems—evidence of his focus on quality and maintainable code in niche real-time domains. He pursues continuous learning through side projects in game design, Kubernetes, and Go, which broaden his systems and tooling perspective beyond traditional embedded work. Known for stepping outside his comfort zone, he brings pragmatic engineering, cross-disciplinary curiosity, and a knack for translating complex hardware constraints into reliable software.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
EE/CpE Embedded Systems Power Electronics Everything, EE/CpE Embedded Systems Power Electronics Everything at Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLightingProject/ola
May 2013 - May 2015
The Open Lighting Architecture - The Travel Adaptor for the Lighting Industry
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:145 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Sean primarily refactored and updated unit tests, specifically focusing on replacing older CPPUNIT calls with the `OLA_ASSERT` macro calls within the Open Lighting Architecture (`ola`) project. The commits modified tests in several submodules, including networking, RDM (Remote Device Management), and trigger action tests. This work involved updating assert calls, fixing errors in test assertions, and ensuring test coverage.
sacnprotobufc-plus-plusenttecstreaming-acn
nightrune/wrench
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 17 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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