Summary
Sean Mclean is a software engineer based in California with 15 years of experience building scalable backend systems, search infrastructure, and web platforms. He has shipped production systems at Reddit and previously helped develop TestFlight and App Store Connect at Apple, plus a robust pipeline to synchronize complex Oracle datasets into Solr. His technical breadth spans Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C++ and a wide infra and data stack (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Nginx), enabling him to tackle both low-level performance work and cloud-native web services. Comfortable in startup and enterprise environments, he often operates at the intersection of legacy systems and modern distributed architectures.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer