My Work

15+ years of building inclusive, high-impact products at the intersection of technology, policy, and systems thinking. Below is a snapshot of the roles, projects, and initiatives I’ve led — as a product leader, speaker, and investor.

  • Chief of Staff - Autodesk
    San Francisco | April 2024 - Present

    I lead strategy, operations, and team health for a 1,000+ person org, driving customer-obsessed transformation across platform and AI initiatives.

    Product Lead - HashiCorp
    San Francisco, CA | 2021–2023
    I launched Waypoint from 0→1, defining the product vision and driving early adoption of a workflow tool for modern application deployment.

    Senior Product Manager - GitHub/Microsoft
    Remote | 2019–2020
    I led the Secret Scanning product, scaling it to protect hundreds of millions of code commits across open source and enterprise customers. I also launched Security Overview from 0→1, defining the product vision and driving early adoption of a single pane of glass for GitHub Advanced Security

    Congressional Fellow - US Senate
    Washington DC | 2018
    I shaped U.S. tech policy on privacy, AI, and data equity through bipartisan legislative work as a technology policy advisor for US Senator Tom Udall.

    Product Management - Various Startups
    Multiple cities | 2010–2018
    Across West Africa and the United States, I worked across civic tech, education, and infrastructure, contributing to mission-driven teams and earning fellowships in tech for public good.

  • Building Products for Technical Audiences - Product Momentum Podcast, November 2024
    In this episode, Bukky Adebayo and Rye Castillo join Sean and Sean to talk about the challenges and opportunities that come with building products for technical audiences.

    Building Products For Technical Audiences– INDUSTRY, Cleveland Ohio, September 2024
    A deep-dive into how I and Rye Castillo rallied our team to build a technical product that met real developer needs.

    How Platform Teams build Developer Experiences - HashiCorp, September 2024
    Platform teams are key to driving cloud adoption. This video describes how many platform teams create great developer experience to standardize and scale cloud adoption.

    Selected other talks

  • As a member of the inaugural class of Greylock Ventures Scouts, I’ve invested or advised the following startups

    • Daytona

    • Ellipsis

    • Merit

    • Tunnel

    • Zenscape

    • Onboardbase

    • Phlete

    • Onwards

  • Olin College of Engineering – B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering