Sean Schofield Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

* Authored a new Javascript standard for representing EDI (JEDI)* Built several command line tools to assist development teams with testing and deployment * Designed and implemented multiple external developer APIs as well as internal APIs used in various microservices

Austin, Texas, US

* Led a complete rebuild of the technology stack which resulted in $32M in annual revenue (a 100% increase from prior year)* Migrated the backend from Java to Typescript and introduced AWS CDK and Cloud Formation for managing infrastructure* Served as acting CTO and led the team through a successful acquisition by Digital Turbine (formerly Mobile Possee)

Brookfield, Wisc., US

• Led a key business transformation effort aimed at moving First Data's entire settlement business from an internal mainframe to a serverless infrastructure based on AWS Cloud technologies.
• Architected and developed a highly scalable online store product hosted in AWS that served thousands of customers with zero downtime in three years.
• Migrated legacy Ruby/Rails applications to a serverless model using Docker and AWS Fargate.
• Built a massive serverless process with AWS Kinesis, Lambda, S3 and DynamoDB that was capable of handling 20,000 transactions per second. In production this solution would eventually save $ 50-$75 million per year in.
• Provided technical guidance as part of First Data's cloud modernization strategy.
• Managed several green field applications developed using a variety of languages including Ruby, ES7 (Javascript) and Node.js.

• Designed our company’s flagship product which connected ecommerce platforms to third party services used for accounting, inventory and fulfillment.
• Architected and supervised the development of our cloud-based infrastructure using several AWS technologies, including: Lambda, Gateway, SQS, ECS and DynamoDB.
• Recruited and hired a highly skilled team of development and DevOps professionals.
• Raised $6.5 million in venture capital funding.
• Negotiated the sale of the company to First Data Corp.

• Resolved scaling issues for ecommerce clients experiencing rapid growth in web traffic.
• Performed migrations of large scale ecommerce customers who were replatforming on Spree.
• Assisted outside development teams that were using Spree Commerce, which was an open-source e-commerce solution that I created and is used by thousands of stores worldwide.

New York, New York, US

• Led a company initiative to shift the development teams away from Perl and towards Ruby/Rails.
• Supervised development teams and managed customer communication on consulting projects.
• Improved the Spree open source platform based on the requirements of large scale ecommerce customers.

• Architected a highly distributed web crawler to build a massive data set used by drug companies to analyze markets created under the Medicare Part D prescription benefit.
• Developed my own open source ecommerce platform (Spree Commerce) based on Ruby/Rails to address the the lack of flexibility and maintenance challenges found in existing solutions.
• Served as an evangelist for a massive open source community with 700 active contributors.

Silver Spring, MD, US

• Led a successful effort to transform a legacy system for medical device applications.
• Facilitated cross-organizational working groups and conducted requirements sessions that included both managers and line employees.
• Built a large product and technology team from the ground up (I was the first hire.)

• Served as lead programmer on a product which enabled real-time tutoring for remote students.
• Transformed our technology stack by moving it from a Microsoft-based platform to one based on Java and Unix (Solaris).
• Introduced the technology team to design patterns and the Struts MVC framework.

GB

• Initiated and performed a complete redesign of our group’s best selling product which reduced maintenance and upgrade costs associated with tax law changes.
• Led a replatforming effort away from Lotus Notes and onto a J2EE-based technology stack.
• Developed software that was modeled on complex international tax regulations.

• Led a team that replaced legacy desktop software with custom built web applications.
• Built an application to facilitate procurement for government intel agencies.

Washington, DC, US

• Rebuilt CBO’s income tax model used to forecast over $900 billion in income tax revenue.
• Coordinated with the legacy development team to ensure smooth transition to the new model.
• Served as excise tax analyst in charge of forecasting over $70 billion in annual tax revenue.

Ma, Public Policy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics