Sean Treadway
Principal Engineer at Veo Technologies
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Treadway is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and scaling large distributed systems for media and streaming platforms, currently building APIs and architecture for live and recorded sports at Veo Technologies from Berlin. He led major platform and organizational transformations at SoundCloud—rearchitecting services for global availability, modernizing analytics and royalties pipelines, and driving Kubernetes multi-cluster, zero-downtime deployments. An early SoundCloud engineer and founder of Superchannel, he blends hands-on systems programming (notably contributing a core Go AMQP client used by messaging stacks) with product-focused infrastructure decisions across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. Sean pairs technical leadership and org design—hiring, promotion frameworks, and cross-team forums—with a curiosity for contemporary art, bringing a cultural lens to engineering tradeoffs and long-term, compounding-impact thinking.
18 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at Bellevue College
English, Danish, German
Github Skills (8)
protocols10
go10
network-protocol10
amqp10
implement10
encoding9
encode9
binary-data9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
streadway/amqp
Apr 2012 - Jan 2020
Go client for AMQP 0.9.1
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:272 commits, 26 PRs, 43 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sean focused on developing the core functionality of the AMQP client library. They implemented reader and writer functionality for frames, encompassing message serialization and deserialization. The commits include code for handling content headers, body frames, heartbeats, and other AMQP protocol elements. This work appears to be central to the library's core function of interacting with AMQP servers.
amqpgorabbitmqprotocol
streadway/ngx_txid
Apr 2013 - Feb 2015
$txid variable for nginx - a sortable unique id in 20 case-insensitive characters
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
case-insensitivenginx
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