My history
I have over 10 years of professional programming experience. You can download a PDF of my resume below or scroll a bit further to see the web version.
seandougnelson.com
Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City, UT
Sean D. Nelson
seandougnelson@gmail.com
(801) 623-8209
(801) 623-8209
seandougnelson.com
seandougnelson@gmail.com
(801) 623-8209 | Salt Lake City, UT
Employment
Staff Software Engineer | 2019 – Present
- Maintains Dexcom Clarity web applications, primarily focused on devops and the back‑end
- Led the following migration projects:
- Data stores: from team‑managed PostgreSQL to Google CloudSQL
- Kubernetes deployment pipeline: from custom Ruby tooling to Harness, then to Argo CD
- Monitoring/alerting: from Sumo Logic to Splunk
- Secrets management: from Git Secrets to External Secrets Operator
- Assisted with the following migration projects:
- Continuous integration: from Bamboo to Github Actions
- Monitoring/alerting: from Splunk to Datadog
- Spearheaded the development of a Clarity service which automates data privacy requests
Software Engineer | 2015 – 2018
- Built internal web application to deploy Docker services to remote credit union servers
- Assisted with migration from OSGi to Spring/Docker RESTful microservices
- Created tools to manage remote logs and handle service discovery
- Developed processes to control application builds, versioning, and releases
IT Specialist | 2012 - 2015
- Maintained front‑end of internal web application used to fulfill orders and manage employees
- Improved web application security by implementing an access control list
- Installed and configured computer hardware/software, networks, printers, and scanners
Education
Salt Lake City, UT | 2012 - 2017
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Emphasis in Entertainment Arts and Engineering
- Coursework: Operating Systems; Computer Systems; Databases; Algorithms; Models of Computation; Software Practice; Data Structures; Game Development; Artificial Intelligence
Personal Projects
Andynelson.io (2024)
- A responsive website created to showcase a graphic designer’s UX/UI expertise
- Built using SvelteKit, encrypted with SWAG, and running in Docker on a DigitalOcean droplet
Ritmo (2014-2015)
- A rhythm/platformer video game, developed as a capstone project
- Built with C# and the Unity game engine, available on Game Jolt
Languages and Technologies
Proficient
- Bash; Ruby; PostgreSQL; Java
- Google Cloud Platform; Kubernetes; Helm; Docker; Argo CD; Github Actions; Crossplane
Intermediate
- Node.js; Fastify; TypeScript; Rails; C#
- Harness; AWS; Nginx; Bamboo; Unity