Sean Canton

Principal Software Engineer | Engineering Manager | Product Owner

Building technology companies at any stage, from prototypes, to growth, to scale, to acquisition.

https://calendly.com/eighteyes/30 - Portland, OR, USA

Experience                                                                                                                

Technical Product Owner/Lead Engineer        GridMetrics/CableLabs                                   1/24 - current        

• Work with Cox, Comcast, and other broadband providers to deliver power data for DOE and ORNL contracts.
• Create monitoring and analytics solutions for data from 330,000 field sensors using serverless and VMs.
• Position product within Utility, Insurance and Emergency Management sectors.
• Establish deployment processes and data orchestration inside Google Cloud Platform.

Engineering Manager II - Marketplace                Discogs                                                      7/21 - 10/22        

• Lead monolith decomposition project with technical design and hands-on development using Python (Flask/FastAPI), React, PostGreSQL, Kafka and GraphQL on Amazon Web Services.
• Develop Python static dependency analysis tooling and conduct event sourcing for migration effort.
• Interview, hire, develop, and manage 6 senior direct reports.
• Conduct code reviews for scalable, production-quality distributed systems, millions of visitors a month.

Director of Product & Engineering                AdMobilize                                                   3/18 - 7/21

• Lead 24 engineers and build products at AdTech AI / IoT startup from prototype to $20m acquisition.
• Data Analytics for AI debugging and root cause using Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, D3 and Seaborn
• Improved time to market for new features from 9 months to 2-4 weeks by serving as the technical liaison between sales and clients. Influence the product roadmap, organize speculative development, allow for maintenance and quality efforts, and protect developer focus during software development life cycle.
• Expanded support to larger customers, scaling from 100x to 10000x devices, by leveraging PubSub, Dataflows, Kubernetes, React and BigQuery on GCP. Testing, monitoring system performance, and ensuring observability were crucial steps in supporting installations and confidently selling to clients.

Lead Platform / Full Stack Engineer                AdMobilize                                                   7/15 - 3/18

• End to End IoT Ecosystem development with Node.js, MongoDB, Firebase, Redis, Angular and Google Cloud Platform to run adaptable logic on edge devices and provide users a dashboard to display real-time data insights and manage device fleets.

Software Engineering Lead                           Rokk3r Labs                                                3/13 - 7/15

• Build startup proof of concepts at venture studio with software engineering and technical leadership.
• Discover ETL Pipeline logic for a commercial real estate startup using NodeJS, Mongo and Neo4j.
• Prototype web applications and workflows using Node.js, Firebase, MongoDB and Angular.
• Develop technical vision with internal and external stakeholders for 12 startup ventures across industries.

• Establish market fit for proof of concepts by collaborating with subject matter experts and UX research.
• Concurrently design, lead and deliver multiple product MVPs with offshore development teams.

Skills                                                                                                                        

Technical Leadership: Championing Product, Mentorship, Engineering Team Leadership

Engineering: Fullstack Engineering, Prototyping, Real-Time Data Visualization

Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Python, React, Svelte, D3, Shell

Databases:  SQL, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Supabase, GraphQL, Kafka, Redis

Data / AI: Pandas, Polars, Spark, PyTorch, LangChain, Comfy, OpenAI, Anthropic, Transformers, Ray

Cloud: GCP, AWS, Azure, DataDog, Kubernetes, Docker, Distributed Systems, Terraform, Vercel

Work History                                                                                                                                                                       

Software Engineer III - Alliance Inspection Managment - Maintain cloud, web, and mobile applications 2023-2023

Full Stack Engineer - Terra Eclipse - Implement features using Node and RabbitMQ for social network websites. 2012

Full Stack Engineer - Candi Controls - Develop Cortana mobile IoT management and reporting application. 2011-2012

Full Stack Engineer - U4EA Design - Develop marketing websites with clients in an agency setting.  2010-2011

Full Stack Engineer - Magenic - Develop client applications with .NET, JavaScript, and C++.  2010

Python Engineer - 8th Bridge - Develop social commerce applications and pages using Django and Facebook API. 2010

Front End Developer - Digital River - Create landing pages and conduct A/B testing with Google Analytics. 2009-2010

Digital Strategist - Create digital media and analyze data for a marketing agency. - AngelVision 2007-2009

Flash / ActionScript Developer - OregonLive - Create advertisements for digital newspaper clients. 2007

Video Producer - Morse Media - Manage, execute and deliver commercial video projects. 2005-2007

Courseware Developer - Cal Poly Humboldt - Utilize Flash, Moodle and HTML/CSS to enhance lessons. 2001-2004

Web Developer - Target Safety - Create OSHA safety training using HTML, JavaScript and ColdFusion. 1999-2001

Education                                                                                                                               

California State Polytechnic, Humboldt        Arcata, CA                                                

B.A. Journalism - Broadcast & Media Studies        B.A. Geography - Climate & GIS Cartography

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