Sean Comerford Email Address

Director of Fantasy Engineering

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With over 20 years of experience building web based software systems, Sean brings a pragmatic approach to software engineering - combining a genuine passion for technology with a practical focus on business problems. As an engineer, Sean has built numerous high throughput web services including those driving MLB.com's all star voting application and ESPN.com's personalization system. Earlier in his career Sean developed web frameworks and applications used widely at Sun Microsystems and IBM. As a team leader, Sean has led software projects ranging in size from two or three engineers to distributed, international teams consisting of 35+ engineers. As an architect, Sean has designed and built systems from the ground up as well as re-architected existing complex systems to solve critical business problems. Sean is also an accomplished technical communicator who has presented in depth technical sessions at major conferences such as JavaOne, QCon and IBM Impact. Specialties: Java, scalability & performance, architecture & design, sports media, building complex high throughput web applications, Cassandra, AWS