Summary
Sean A is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader specializing in scalable IoT and real-time systems for electric-vehicle charging and fleet electrification. As a Senior Software Developer at Optiwatt since 2024, and formerly the technical lead for Charging Stations at ViriCiti (now part of ChargePoint), he has steered a six-person agile team through feature-rich telemetry, smart charging, and microgrid integrations, leveraging a Node.js microservices stack and MongoDB. He doubled monitored chargers and reduced metadata overhead by 90% via time-series databases, while optimizing Kafka-based event processing to significantly cut memory and CPU usage. His background at Facebook includes the Realtime Gateway and Video Integrity teams, where he built WebSocket-based real-time features and deployed scalable testing and tooling, improving developer efficiency and live-use coverage. He brings a strong full-stack sensibility, a track record of cross-team collaboration across post-acquisition environments, and hands-on leadership from tender to launch and post-sales support. A University of Washington alumnus with a CS degree, he hails from Colorado and now operates with a Denver base, ready to tackle complex, high-velocity engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Washington