Sean Beck

The Washington Post

Senior Software Engineer

December 2021 - Present

I work on the Discovery team helping design and build the gaming platform and the games themselves, including the second most played crossword in the world, Wridges, Keyword, On the Record, with Wridges and Keyword being my sole responsibility. I also contributed to the Washington Post home page and article pages, building Python Lambdas for site functionality like creating and updating sitemaps when articles are published or updated.
Previously, I worked with the Subscriptions' authentication/identity and payments teams maintaining and developing new shared JavaScript/TypeScript and React component libraries used across many web applications. I've also added Playwright integration testing for critical application flows run in existing CI/CD process, improved the CI/CD pipeline to reduce time and resource usage, and automated parts of the team workflow to improve developer productivity. I also built dynamic image generation API using Lambda for sharing images with user specific data for Washington Post's Year in Review feature.

Openbay

Software Engineer

September 2019 to December 2021

Designed and built Vue.js SPA with JSON:API-spec Ruby on Rails API. Integrated into existing deployment pipeline in Ansible and served by an AWS S3 bucket.

https://app.openbay.com/

Harvard University

Front End Developer and Designer

October 2015 to September 2019

I worked with the Marketing and Strategy team in the Department of Continuing Education to gather requirements, designed wireframes, created high fidelity designs, and built the front end of consumer facing websites for DCE brands like Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School. I also designed and built the front-end of the Harvard Extension and Harvard Summer School Course Catalog web applications with Vue.js with a Laravel back-end and managed the CI/CD process.

erecruit

Lead UX Engineer

October 2013 to October 2015

I lead a small UX team developing a design vision for an enterprise level web application. Responsibilities include setting priorities on issues, meeting with clients, creating and maintaining a style guide, wireframing, designing, and building front end interfaces of new features.