Sean Hildebrand

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams through rapid scaling phases.
  • Defined technical direction for high-growth fintech startups.
  • Expert in building robust platform architectures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Engineering Leader with extensive experience in scaling technology teams and platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementPlatform EngineeringArchitectural StrategyIncident ManagementCross-functional CollaborationTechnical StrategyTeam LeadershipFeature DeliveryTeam Management

Other Skills

Technical DirectionCollaborationHiring ProcessGoJavaScriptNode.jsLinuxPythonDockerAmazon Web Services (AWS)MongoDBRedisSoftware DevelopmentDatabase DesignData Engineering

About

Engineering leader and builder. All things technology with a focus on fintech, payments, and infrastructure.

Experience

10 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Mercor

Head of Leverage Engineering

Sep 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Synctera

2 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2023Sep 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Took full ownership of our engineering function, leading a distributed team of 50 engineers and defining the technical direction during a pivotal stage of the company’s growth. Focused on scaling our platform and teams as the company surpasses $90M in funding and has reconciled over $200B in transactions.
Technical LeadershipEngineering Management

Head of Platform Engineering

Sep 2020Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Joined Synctera as a founding engineer to shape the future of fintech. Focused on zero-to-one execution, delivering core platform services and defining architectural strategy, enabling the company to scale beyond 100 employees in our first 12 months.
Platform EngineeringArchitectural Strategy

Taplytics

Engineering Manager

Jun 2020Sep 2020 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Led a focused four-month engagement to formalize incident management, improve cross-functional collaboration between customer-facing teams and engineering, accelerate release cadence, and enhance production visibility across the engineering organization.
Incident ManagementCross-Functional Collaboration

Instacart

Engineering Manager

Mar 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Led teams responsible for critical components of the Instacart Enterprise platform. Oversaw major cross-team initiatives, driving collaboration and alignment, while helping to shape the company’s technical strategy. Played a key role leading workstreams during Instacart’s rapid scaling in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Technical StrategyTeam Leadership

Koho

Engineering Manager

Nov 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Led one of three cross-functional feature teams during rapid growth, scaling headcount from 15 to 60 within 15 months. Revamped the engineering hiring process to improve consistency and accelerate recruitment across QA, frontend, and backend disciplines. Served as a hiring manager and drove product feature delivery in close collaboration with product management and design, while managing the team. Additionally, contributed as a member of KOHO’s leadership team, helping to shape company-wide engineering strategy and culture.
Feature DeliveryTeam Management

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2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • As a member of both the product and platform teams, I delivered user-facing functionality in collaboration with multi-disciplinary feature teams as well as providing internal tooling and systems engineering resources to other engineers and business teams.

DevOps Engineer

Oct 2015Mar 2016 · 5 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Provided systems expertise to a growing backend development team, focusing on configuration management, log aggregation, and deployment tooling for application services.

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