Sean Larkin
Technical Program Manager II at webpack - Open Source Project
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolSean Larkin is a Technical Program Manager II at Microsoft with 13 years of hands-on software engineering and developer-experience focus, currently shaping Edge DevTools and the EdgeHTML web platform. A longtime open-source maintainer and webpack core team member, he has meaningful contributions to high-profile projects like webpack, Angular CLI, and Microsoft's rushstack monorepo, driving performance, tooling, and build-system improvements. He combines front-end architecture expertise with backend and native experience (JavaScript, TypeScript, Objective-C/Cocoa) and a rare product-minded support background that informs practical, user-first design decisions. Sean’s work consistently centers on developer experience and web performance, and he brings community-facing advocacy—conference talks and core-team leadership—into enterprise program management. An unusual detail: he pairs a BA in Music with deep technical credentials, reflecting both creative instincts and disciplined engineering.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music at Concordia University-Wisconsin
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Github Skills (40)
javascript10
testing10
css10
typescript10
webpages10
bundle10
web-content10
xctest10
webpack10
performance-optimization10
webpacker10
angular-cli10
typescript-types10
build-automation10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
webpack/webpack
Jun 2016 - Apr 2022
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 174 reviews, 317 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to improving the performance and functionality of the webpack bundler. They made substantial changes to the core template and plugin logic, including modifications to the `UmdMainTemplatePlugin`, `AmdMainTemplatePlugin`, `SetVarMainTemplatePlugin`, and `JsonpExportMainTemplatePlugin` for more efficient code generation and HMR. Their work included enhancements to the build process, such as modifying the compilation code and the introduction of performance budgeting features.
amdbundlercode-splittingcommonjscss
microsoft/rushstack
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Monorepo for tools developed by the Rush Stack community
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:146 reviews, 90 commits, 40 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the `microsoft/rushstack` monorepo by introducing and updating webpack-plugin-utilities, which included updating package.json and making changes to TypeScript files. They fixed usage of deprecated webpack-dev-server APIs and addressed warnings related to webpack-dev-server v4. They also modified the code to refactor logic and address PR comments. These commits involved refactoring and fixing issues related to building and bundling tooling.
monoreporushtypescriptapiapi-extractor
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