Sheehan Anderson
Chief Architect - Fidelity Digital Assets at Fidelity Investments
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSheehan Anderson is a seasoned software leader and chief architect with 11 years building scalable web and blockchain systems, currently leading architecture for Fidelity Digital Assets. He combines deep hands-on experience in Java, Node.js, and Go with strategic product delivery across custody and exchange platforms for institutional crypto. His background includes co-founding and maintaining Hyperledger Fabric work at IBM and contributing ledger and RocksDB integration improvements to the Fabric archives, reflecting strong expertise in distributed ledgers and state management. Prior roles at State Street and Salesforce broaden his enterprise architecture and developer-experience credentials, while early startup and cloud platform work show a pragmatic, full-stack engineering foundation. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs technical rigor with operational focus, often translating complex blockchain primitives into auditable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Minor in Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Minor in Economics at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
distributed-ledger-technology10
rocksdb10
distributed-ledger10
state-management10
go10
ledger10
hyperledger10
blockchain10
protobuffer9
database9
protobuf9
dependency-management9
databases9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/fabric
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
THIS IS A READ-ONLY historic repository. Current development is at https://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/#/admin/projects/fabric . pull requests not accepted
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:576 commits, 442 PRs, 351 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sheehan primarily worked on implementing features related to storing and managing blockchain data within the Hyperledger Fabric project. They modified code related to the blockchain database, including the use of RocksDB for storing blockchain data. Additionally, the user added features related to transaction results and state deltas, enabling enhancements for state management and synchronization. These changes involved modifications to several core files demonstrating a focus on improving the ledger's functionality.
hyperledgeradminfabricblockchainpull-requests
srderson/fabric
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:202 pushes, 92 branches in 5 months
minecraftblockchainfabric
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