Summary
Sean Yalda is a Senior Software Engineer in Los Angeles with over a decade of hands-on web experience dating back to 2001, blending product design and engineering to deliver performant, scalable, and reliable web experiences. He moves fluidly between designing interfaces and implementing them—what he designs, he also codes—making him especially effective on small, cross-functional teams and early-stage products. Sean has driven technical strategy and growth at startups from MVP to multi-round fundraising (notably at PlayVS) and now builds full-stack GraphQL tooling and production systems at Sayari. His background spans UX, product management, open-source prototyping, and blockchain experiments, reflecting a creative developer mindset that includes inventing, music, and parenting. Known for building developer-friendly tooling (dynamic GraphQL/DB generators) and streamlining dev workflows, he brings a practical, design-forward engineering approach to complex product problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, Arabic