Sean Wentzel
Backend Group Tech Lead at Asana
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Wentzel is a Backend Group Tech Lead at Asana with 12 years of experience building and operating scalable infrastructure and backend systems. He joined Asana as an intern and progressed through engineering roles over a decade, now leading backend group efforts from San Francisco. With a strong mathematical background (BSc and Honours in Mathematics from University of Cape Town) and recent study in machine learning alignment, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical systems engineering. Sean’s career includes multiple internships at Amazon Web Services, giving him early exposure to large-scale cloud platforms that inform his approach to reliability and performance. Colleagues would note his steady progression within a single product-focused company as evidence of both deep institutional knowledge and an ability to drive long-term technical improvements.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning for Alignment BootcampHonours Mathematics, Honours Mathematics at University of Cape TownWesterford High School
English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, German
Github Skills (27)
formatter8
scala8
network-programming4
asana-api4
python4
fiber4
slick3
webtransport3
notebook3
networking3
akka3
asana2
manipulation2
java2
metadata2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
seanwentzel/icpc-notebook-2015
Mar 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 8 months
notebookicpc
seanwentzel/icpc-notebook
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:3 commits, 1 comment in 8 months
icpclotnotebookteam-notebookuct
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