Sebastian Makinson
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Lone Tree, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Makinson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently contributing to Google’s web platform after several years working on the Drive frontend. He combines a pragmatic, results-driven approach with a strong design sensibility, advocating for accessible and beautiful web experiences while shipping at scale. Primarily a JavaScript developer, he also brings cross-language fluency in C/C++, Python, Java, PHP and Go, and a history of leading teams, building mobile apps, and managing production Linux/MySQL infrastructure. His background ranges from startups and consulting to leadership roles (Director of Engineering) and long-term freelance work, showing comfort across product, backend, and client-facing responsibilities. Based in Lone Tree, Colorado, he’s known for challenging assumptions to find better technical solutions and for translating UX goals into maintainable, high-performance systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Great FallsNorth Beach High SchoolMasters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at Syracuse University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
pdo8
lumen8
filesystem8
database-migrations8
laravel7
migration7
mysqli7
php7
php-library7
react6
lumen-framework6
react-native6
database5
mysql4
parse4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sebmak/sebmak.github.io
Jul 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
GoAbroadHQ/GoAbroad-HQ-SDK
Mar 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 5 months
sdk
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