Sean Dunn

Director of Engineering

Stamford, Connecticut, United States16 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Director of Engineering at GitHub with extensive leadership experience.
Strong background in Front-End Web Development and Engineering Management.
Proven track record in developing features for Adobe Portfolio and Behance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Frontend Engineering Leader with extensive experience in product development.

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PythonScalaHTML5CSSNode.jsSubversionJavaRuby on RailsMVCPostgreSQLAJAXMac OS XLinuxCoffeeScriptJavaScript

About

Raised on Video Games and Digital Media, I have a huge appreciation for all things Computer Science. I tend to at least dabble in many Computer Science areas, but my concrete skillsets have been within Front-End Web Development and Engineering Management.

Experience

16 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Sr. Engineering Manager

Dec 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Adobe

4 roles

Sr. Manager, Software Development

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Nov 2021 · 9 mos

New feature development for Adobe Portfolio and the Behance Network

Manager, Software Development

Nov 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Frontend Team on Adobe Portfolio
Portfolio New Product Development

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs

Frontend @ Behance
Frontend on Adobe Portfolio
Frontend on Behance

Software Engineer

Apr 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Javascript Team @ Behance
Frontend on Behance
Frontend on Adobe Portfolio

Ibm

3 roles

Software Engineer, Innovations for Security and Compliance

May 2012 – Apr 2013 · 11 mos

Software Development Co-Op

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos

Innovations for Security and Compliance team member.

Pre-Professional Developer

Aug 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

Lead Developer on the Web Front-End for an Academic Cloud Provisioning System. Responsibilities include (but were not limited to):
Developing the Overall System Design Specifications
Developing the Underlying Framework
Develop the Javascript utilities (done using the JQuery library) utilized by the System's other developers
Work on various Servlets used by the System
Overseeing the other Developers working on the System
Maintaining the overall "look-and-feel" of the Application

Brightcove

End User Experience Intern

Jul 2011 – Dec 2011 · 5 mos

Worked with the Flash Video Player, primarily in the area of data quality.

Ibm/marist joint study

Quality Assurance Tester/Engineer

Jan 2010 – Nov 2010 · 10 mos

Regression and Stress Testing of the Sakai e-learning platform on Websphere/DB2 using Agile testing techniques. More recently, using Selenium and Bromine to create efficient, highly reusable, and business readable test cases in PHP, Java, and Selenese HTML.

Ugo networks

Editorial and Development Intern

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos

Summer internship focused on helping both the Editorial team with general editorial tasks, as well as helping the development team with various technology related projects.

Ibm/marist joint studies

QA Tester

Sep 2008 – May 2009 · 8 mos

Performed daily testing of Sakai Academic Suite on IBM's Websphere and DB2.
Daily Regression tests using the Selenium IDE.
Creation and maintenance of new testing scripts.
Created Java test suite using Selenium Remote Control Software in conjunction with TestNG platform.