Summary
Sean Stappas is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure and operational tools for hyperscale cloud providers, currently contributing to Google after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. He has designed and productionized resilient systems for Azure Compute—building Kafka-backed inventory pipelines, deployment automation with health gates, and monitoring and watchdog tools that are used daily by on-call engineers. Sean blends backend systems engineering (C#, Java, Kafka, Kusto) with a strong operational mindset, having led transitions from ad-hoc scripts to managed control plane code and owned incident and compliance work. Early work at Amazon and startups honed his data-processing and testing discipline, including parallelized Spark queries and high-coverage BDD. Notably, he pairs a perfect 4.0 McGill engineering GPA with a practical habit of creating onboarding and tooling documentation that scales team productivity. Based in Redmond, WA, he focuses on making complex distributed systems observable, reliable, and easier for engineers to operate.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Collegial Studies, Pure and Applied Sciences, R Score: 35.757, Diploma of Collegial Studies, Pure and Applied Sciences, R Score: 35.757 at Marianopolis College
DES (High School Diploma), DES (High School Diploma) at College Notre-Dame
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA: 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GPA: 4.0/4.0 at McGill University
English, French, Greek, Spanish