Sean Brody
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Brody is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of full-stack experience, currently shaping platform and feature delivery at Capital One after senior engineering roles at The Washington Post and The College Board. He combines front-end expertise in React and modern editor frameworks (Lexical.js/Draft.js) with backend Node.js and AWS-based serverless architectures, consistently shipping complex publishing and registration systems. Sean led the architecture and launch of a modern story/template editor used by journalists, owned end-to-end test strategy, and built security features to protect sensitive content—demonstrating both product empathy and operational rigor. His background includes designing visualization plugins (Elasticsearch/Kibana), remote software control systems, and cost-monitoring dashboards, showing a knack for turning domain needs into practical tooling. Based in Virginia, he blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership and a pattern of improving legacy systems through thoughtful modernization.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Maryland
English
Github Skills (92)
emulation10
emotes10
macos10
objective-c10
windows9
mouse9
plex9
spectacle9
modification9
extensible8
authentication8
metadata8
irc8
oauth8
plugin8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jayzhang929/VTHack-What-s-Happen
Feb 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:32 pushes in 4 years 10 months
ifonefox/Shepherd
Sep 2015 - Dec 2019
The server portion of Shepherd
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
shepherd
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