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Sean Sackowitz

  • Director of Engineering, Snap! Mobile, Inc.
  • Co-Founder, Road Turtle Games

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Snap! Mobile, Inc. snapraise.com

Director of Engineering

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  • Lead five engineers, including a principal engineer as team lead, owning nine products; Raise and Store alone process roughly $250M in annual GMV and generate 99% of company revenue.
  • Sustained delivery across all nine products through a company-wide reduction that halved the team, without dropping scope or retiring a product.
  • Grew annual GMV 35% while cutting portfolio infrastructure spend roughly 50%, migrating products off legacy VMs onto a shared Kubernetes platform.
  • Built an AI-assisted engineering practice, agentic coding tools plus automated CI/CD and operations, that lets five engineers cover nine products; ship AI-developed products behind rigorous testing and security auditing.
  • Own product roadmap jointly with Product and Design; report strategy, risk, and results to the executive team and board.
  • Shipped customer-facing AI in Raise and Store plus internal automation across sales, raising release frequency and cutting production incidents.

Senior Engineering Manager

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  • Took over Raise and Store after a Director's departure, assuming the company's two highest-revenue products; promoted to Director six months later.
  • Replatformed Store from legacy PHP and Magento onto React and MedusaJS on Kubernetes, cutting over with minimal planned downtime.
  • Cut platform cost roughly $5,000 per month through that migration, moving the second-to-last product onto shared Kubernetes.

Engineering Manager

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  • Owned a portfolio of legacy applications spanning .NET, end-of-life PHP, and AWS Lambda with MongoDB.
  • Authored the rewrite and migration strategy for each and led their move onto Kubernetes, retiring technical debt without taking products out of production.
  • Moved from individual contributor to people leader, establishing delivery cadence and engineering practices.

Principal Engineer

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  • Hired as a senior IC to assess and set technical direction for Snap!'s legacy portfolio.
  • Defined the architecture and migration strategy later executed as Engineering Manager and Director; moved into leadership within five months.

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Red Hat, Inc. redhat.com

Ansible Automation Architect

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  • Led 4 to 8 consultants across 2 to 4 concurrent enterprise engagements, owning delivery from discovery through production.
  • Drove pre-sales and discovery for network automation at a Fortune 50 retailer, then led BGP and datacenter automation through to production.
  • Brought estates exceeding 10,000 network devices under automated management, replacing manual configuration with repeatable pipelines.
  • Mentored consultants through onboarding and certification; helped build the regional practice through talks and community events.

Senior Network Automation Consultant

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  • Built Ansible automation letting a global industrial manufacturer stand up full Windows Server environments remotely, reaching isolated plants and offshore rigs.
  • Standardized deployments across sites and datacenters, collapsing provisioning from days to minutes and eliminating configuration drift.

Consultant

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  • Delivered greenfield Ansible Automation Platform deployments for more than a dozen enterprise clients across telecom, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare.
  • Designed zero touch provisioning for a national wireless carrier's 4G network.

Associate Consultant

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  • Led a small team improving performance of international freight transportation software in C and C++, increasing message throughput 46%.

UNC Charlotte

B.S., Computer Science

  • Focus in Artificial Intelligence
  • Certificate in Game Design and Development

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Road Turtle Games roadturtlegames.com

Co-Founder

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  • Co-founded a self-funded game studio in 2012 and helped build the business itself, including finances, taxes, and commercial titles released on Steam.
  • Continue to design and ship titles and to operate all on-premises and cloud infrastructure for the studio.