Sean O'donnell
Software Engineer - Release Manager at Visual Comfort & Co.
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSean O'donnell is a seasoned software engineer and release manager with 12 years of experience specializing in Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, CI/CD automation, shell scripting, and Linux systems administration. Currently leading release engineering at Visual Comfort & Co., he previously supported multiple Earth Science missions at JPL through Raytheon, bringing rigorous operational discipline to mission-critical software. His background spans embedded Linux QA and STB integration at DIRECTV, cloud and API work on AWS, and automation-heavy roles that blend systems engineering with developer tooling. Known for marrying low-level systems knowledge with scalable automation, he helps teams deliver repeatable, auditable releases in complex environments. Based in Houston, he combines practical scripting fluency (bash/python) with a long track record of supporting both product and mission operations. An early career foundation in web and audio-related development gives him an unusual cross-domain perspective on reliability and user-facing systems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Audio Engineering, Digital Audio Engineering at Citrus College
Stackoverflow
1reputation
93reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (25)
editor9
electron9
javascript9
linux9
windows9
macos9
text-editor8
php6
wordpress6
laravel6
rdf5
status-page5
rss5
webservice4
pelican4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sodonnell/spacetrack
Apr 2015 - Nov 2019
A generic REST/JSON API client for the space-track.org web service, written in PHP.
Contributions:17 PRs, 53 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 7 months
json-apiphprestwebservice
sodonnell/rssbot2
Jun 2019 - Jun 2026
A modern version of my ancient rssbot script, written in python3.
Contributions:1 release, 228 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 1 month
pythonpython3rssrss-aggregatorrss-feed-scraper
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.