With a proven track record of driving innovation and leading high-performing teams, I am an experienced Software Engineering Manager passionate about pushing boundaries in cloud technologies. Previously managing four developer teams and a tech lead, I excel in finding optimal solutions to complex challenges from people management to technological advancements. My career highlights include creating and maintaining top-performing teams and orchestrating a swift pivot during the pandemic to generate revenue through the only available sport. Rapidly climbing the corporate hierarchy, I am recognised for my ability to learn, adapt, and make strategic decisions that yield tangible results. At Derivco, I was pivotal in managing bespoke trading systems, overseeing multiple migrations from on-premise monoliths to cloud-based microservices and significantly speeding up time-to-market through deployment pipeline templates. Additionally, I have been actively involved in hands-on technical work, improving CI frameworks, creating cloud POCs and solving problems that lie between the teams. My expertise extends to managing rapid growth, and migrating from on premise systems to cloud. With a strong commitment to mentorship and solution-driven leadership, I thrive in collaborative environments and am dedicated to driving organisational success through strategic innovation and team empowerment.
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Software Engineering ManagerDerivco Sports Jul 2020 - May 2024Ipswich, Suffolk, GbPromoted to Software Engineering Manager. Responsible for managing the people, process and product of multiple bespoke trading systems. Managed four teams in multple countries of developers and a technical lead creating different trading systems.- Instrumental in growing the department from 3 teams to 9 teams. Tasks ranged from candidate filtering, interviewing and improving the hiring process. Had a lower than average staff turnover for the industry.- Practised CI/CD across infrastructure and code by building and enforcing templated pipelines. Increased number of releases leading to better product stability and faster features.- In charge of getting our first statistical model driven trading system into the cloud for better scalability using a template driven approach for future projects to benefit.- Remained partially hands on with filling gaps between the teams with implementing a data archive solution for reports needed outside of our department. Showed innovation and has the ability to contribute at a low level if necessary. -
Lead Software DeveloperDerivco Sports Feb 2018 - Jul 2020Ipswich, Suffolk, GbPromoted to Team lead in charge of a singular team, still building trading systems.- Built the company's first and second cloud micro service based trading systems. Knowledge of migrating from on premise monoliths to a much more releasable and scalable system of higher quality and faster features.- Met a very tight deadline given by an external data provider retiring a service in order to not lose millions in turnover. Praise was given by bosses a few levels up and by the external data provider as the work was completed much faster than rival companies.- During the pandemic all but table tennis was stopped. Work was juggled and table tennis was delivered in a 2 week sprint providing some revenue in a tough time for the industry.
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Senior Software DeveloperDerivco Sports Mar 2017 - Feb 2018Ipswich, Suffolk, GbMoved to tech partner of Wintechnologies as a C# Senior Developer. Worked on an automated sports trading system which turns data feeds into odds in a queue based architecture with low latency.- Became more backend focused around queue based architectures with a need for low latency. Learning the subtleties of trading systems.- Took much more ownership of projects and became a goto person around our environments and deployments. This showed the right characteristics for moving into management.- Would always take the time to explain solutions to team members with a long term view of improvement. This showed mentorship and management ability.- Different area within the gambling industry gaining knowledge of trading terminology and best practice to enable better quality work as an individual and as a team.
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Senior Software DeveloperBetway Ltd Aug 2013 - Mar 2017Gzira, MtC# Web Developer, promoted to Senior Developer in November 2016. Worked on the server-side casino framework which the web teams then use to build sites onto, enabling highly configurable, compliant sites that are quick to develop.- Became proficient around web based technologies and Umbraco.- Gained much insight into the gambling industry enabling well founded angles into the way systems were engineered.- Promoted in a few years from junior to senior as technologies were easily grasped and would always try to understand the bigger picture. -
.Net DeveloperBskyb Aug 2011 - Aug 2013Middlesex, England, GbASP .NET developer. Developing websites onto a CMS system (episerver) supporting ie6+, chrome, firefox and safari; using c#, html5, css (.less), jquery. Also developed a mobile web app using jquery mobile. Also have developed standalone websites using MVC 4, razor, web apis, responsive design and backbone.js -
It TraineeFdm Group Mar 2011 - Aug 2011London, Gb
Sean Kennett Education Details
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University Of BristolMathematics
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Sean Kennett's current role is Software Engineering Manager | Real Time Trading Systems | Driving Innovation in Cloud Technologies | Leading High-Performing Teams to Success.
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Sean Kennett attended University Of Bristol.
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