Sean Leather

Sean Leather has worked in the software engineering industry for over 15 years. In 2021, they began working as a Database Engineer for TerminusDB. From 2015 to 2021, they worked as a Software Engineer for Rheo Systems (Pty) Ltd, where they were a full-stack developer with Haskell on the frontend using GHCJS and Reflex, Haskell on the backend using Yesod, and PostgreSQL as the database. Sean also contributed to an Android app, where their largest contribution was the research for and migration of the app from SQLite to the mobile database Realm for storing persistent data. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Engineer for doxIQ from 2013 to 2015, a Design Engineer for Anue Systems from 2006 to 2015, a Performance Modeling Engineer (Intern) for IBM from 2005 to 2006, an Architecture Design Engineer (Intern) for Cray Inc. from 2004 to 2005, a Digital Hardware Design Engineer (Intern) for Rockwell Collins from 2003 to 2004, an Avionics Research and Development Engineer (Co-op) for Boeing from 2002 to 2003, and an Avionics Test Engineer (Co-op) and Embedded Software Engineer (Co-op) for Boeing from 2001 to 2002. At Boeing, they designed, implemented, and tested a full C++ framework for logging network communications between flight simulators and servers, which was designed to be cross-platform and ran on VxWorks, Irix, and Windows.

Sean Leather's education history includes completing a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science at Utrecht University in 2008, a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin from 2003 to 2006, a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis from 1998 to 2003, and a High School degree from The McCallie School from 1992 to 1998.