# Sean Cawley > Software Engineer at IBM / Graduate Student at USC Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/seancawley I am a highly motivated and goal oriented engineer who is passionate about making the world a better place. I am looking forward to further my career in Computer Science to to shape the future of our world. I am incredibly resilient and driven to accomplish any challenge set before me I love working at a leading tech company that is dedicated to connecting mankind to one another and shaping the future of human civilization. I am a former athlete turned teacher who became a soldier and became fortunate enough to work at a fantastic company. My life is an incredible journey and I try to make most out of every day I am here on earth. Outside of IBM, I enjoy staying active by working out, exploring everything Silicon Valley has to offer and partaking new adventures whenever an opportunity arises. My life is an amazing story, come ask me and I’ll tell you all about it! I am also not open to contract opportunities. ## Work Experience ### AI Researcher/ Project Manager @ USC Information Sciences Institute Jan 2025 – Present | Marina del Rey, California, United States Current graduate student AI researcher and project lead Leading AI research projects in collaboration with USC faculty as part of an LLM project, an initiative focused on democratizing access to academic research. Currently developing tools and infrastructure to simplify the publishing process for researchers, enhance the discoverability of their work globally, and streamline reading experiences through intelligent summarization and retrieval—ultimately helping amplify the visibility and impact of scholarly contributions worldwide. Managing a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and researchers to design, develop, and deploy AI solutions using Python, C++, and TensorFlow. Responsibilities include project planning, task delegation, technical oversight, and integration of machine learning models into scalable systems. Collaborating closely with domain experts to translate research goals into production-ready tools and infrastructure that support real-world academic and industrial applications. Spearheading the integration of machine learning models into autonomous systems by bridging the gap between research and deployment. Designing end-to-end pipelines for training, validating, and deploying models in real-time environments. Leveraging techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and control systems to enable intelligent perception and decision-making within robotic platforms. Collaborating with robotics engineers to ensure seamless integration into ROS-based architectures and simulation frameworks. ### Graduate Student @ University of Southern California Jan 2024 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States Current graduate student and research scientist/engineer ### Software Engineer - Backend @ IBM Jan 2023 – Present | San Jose, California, United States I am on the Netezza team at IBM. Netezza empowers data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to run complex workloads without additional ETL or data movement. It uses AI-infused elastic scaling to enable workload efficiency and cost predictability in the cloud, at a massive enterprise scale. Work in an agile, collaborative environment across software architecture, understanding both front-end and back-end concerns, while specializing in the back-end. Currently working with client-server architectures, networking protocols, application development, and databases. Currently use and develop RESTful APIs and web services and work to meet user and system requirements for the Netezza data replication team at IBM Create cloud software using object oriented programming, multi-threading and concurrency. I currently plan, analyze, design, and construct databases to implement industry standards and best practices for database security that is capable of analyzing and defining database and information security requirements. Creating structured query language (SQL) queries, back-end database stored procedures, or NoSQL queries. Working with programming languages like Ruby, Python, Java, C++, Node.js, server-side JavaScript. ### Artificial Intelligence Engineer/ Research Scientist @ Foothill College Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Software Engineering Trainee - Fullstack/Project Manager @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Software Engineering Trainee: Participated in Google Developer Academy, an internal boot camp program to help Google employees develop a technical foundation transition to software engineering roles. Successfully completed 10 months that involved completing 36 full-stack assignments and 4 group projects focused on fullstack, backend, front-end, infrastructure, site reliability, machine learning, and embedded software engineering and technical program management training. The Google Developer Academy (GDA) is a training program within Google that is designed to train non-software engineers to become software engineers. The program is broken into 2 parts of which you must apply for and get into separately (Pre-GDA & GDA). Pre-GDA: - 16 week intensive coding bootcamp - CS 101 & CS 102 curriculum - Learning Java - Data structures and algorithms in Java GDA - Highly selective training program - Learn internal frameworks - Build full-stack applications - API development using RPCs - Unit testingThe Google Developer Academy (GDA) is a training program within Google that is designed to train non-software engineers to become software engineers. The program is broken into 2 parts of which you must apply for and get into separately (Pre-GDA & GDA). Pre-GDA: 16 week intensive coding bootcamp - CS 101 & CS 102 curriculum - Learning Java - Data structures and algorithms in Java GDA: Highly selective training program - Learn internal frameworks - Build full-stack applications - API development using RPCs - Unit testing Technical Recruiter: Managed 20+ roles and over 2000+ plus candidates over an 18 month month period with the successful hiring of candidates for job functions in embedded, information security, fullstack, information hardware, and backend technical program management and software engineering teams ### Captain - Quarter Master Officer @ US Army Jan 2012 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California Area The U.S. Army’s mission is to fight and win our Nation’s wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. I am a Logistics/Quartermaster officer tasked with the supply, refitting, transportation, and coordination of aerial supply and convoy routes to maintain combat effectiveness of combat arms branches and over 500,000 troops. I coordinate and track supply routes, aerial and ground tracking of transportation units, I also catalog and inventory of storage facilities and shipping vehicles for the 227th QM company in Sacramento, CA ### Technical Project Coordinator @ Blend Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Created a competitive hiring data analysis tool through the companies Confluence page using the Pandas and Scipi libraries in Python. Worked with 20 recruiters, 3 sourcers, and 5 coordinators to successfully establish collaborative business partnerships with 12 engineering teams across 3 work organizations Managed 20+ roles and sourced over 450+ plus candidates over a 6 month period with the successful hiring of roles in full stack, backend, front-end, information security, and data software engineering teams Helped lead recruiting efforts for veterans hiring in collaboration with Blend’s veterans employee’s resource group ### Project Manager @ Aurora Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto Self driving tech company working on autonomous cars and trucks. As the first recruiting coordinator hired by Aurora, I helped build out the recruiting policies, communications, and procedures responsible for the successful growth of Aurora 18-month period to a company of 300+ employees. I successfully engaged in workforce and capacity planning with HR, Legal, Finance and Facility teams to scale out the growth 3 new offices in both California and Pennsylvania Screened and worked on vendor selection efforts for implementation of Aurora’s applicant tracking system Greenhouse, and autoscheduling software Goodtime and also participated in selection analysis of email campaign management, onboarding, and offer systems As a sourcer, I work with 12 recruiters and 3 coordinators to successfully establish collaborative business partnerships with multiple hiring teams across software, hardware, product, G&A, operations, legal, HR, finance, and business planning work organizations Helped lead the successful set-up of Aurora's ATS system and worked on the launch of the Aurora job board for the company website and also created the first resource website for the recruiting team. Create analytics reporting and dashboards for the talent acquisition team and hiring partners to track scaling progress and identify opportunities to optimize Aurora’s hiring process ### Project Coordinator @ Uber Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Uber is evolving the way the world moves. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through our apps, we make cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers. From our founding in 2009 to our launches in over 400+ cities today, Uber's rapidly expanding global presence continues to bring people and their cities closer. As an executive recruiting coordinator. I supported the world-wide talent acquisition of future leaders of Uber’s team and helped to create the future of driverless technology, consumer transportation, and digital logistics I successfully worked with recruiters and leadership to plan and facilitate executive talent search efforts and expansion of new business teams. I was responsible for full cycle recruitment coordination support for over 502 worldwide office including transportation, offer creation, sourcing, and on-site interview procedures . I also worked to create and refine new recruiting processes and applicant tracking systems for utilization by the executive search team. ### Project Coordinator (Contract)- Technical/Engineering Teams @ LinkedIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA LinkedIn has revolutionized candidate experience and I am proud to have contributed to the creation of one of the best environments [in] the technology sector . As a Recruiting Coordinator at LinkedIn, it was my job to ensure that all of our candidates had a positive and meaningful experience throughout their interview process. I supported LinkedIn's Technical recruiting team. From interviews to handling the logistics of candidates traveling to our worldwide locations, I worked with recruiters and engineering team members to coordinate phone, video conference & onsite interviews and transportation.. RC Experience: Technical Recruiting (January 2016 - July 2016) ### Enterprise Business Representative Specialist @ BrightEdge Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Mateo, CA BrightEdge SEO is the first SEO platform to deliver proven ROI - enabling marketers to increase revenue from organic search in a measurable and predictable way. The largest brands in the world depend on BrightEdge to manage their digital marketing across their sites, search and social. As an EBR, I was responsible for partnering with enterprise companies in a consultative effort to assist them in accomplishing their SEO and digital marketing goals while alleviating any pain points. My responsibilities for the sales cycle included prospecting, developing and qualifying leads, prioritizing accounts, discovering pain points, and coordinating product demonstrations. Throughout the sales process, I ensured that I quantitatively analyzed the ROI from a company's current SEO and digital marketing resources and demonstrate how BrightEdge's solutions would help a company achieve better results quicker, easier, and more cost-efficiently. ### Mangement Assistant @ Enterprise Rent-A-Car Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA Founded in 1957, Enterprise Rent-A-Car is an internationally recognized brand with more than 7,000 neighborhood and airport locations throughout the world. With more than 5,600 offices located within 15 miles of 90 percent of the U.S. population, Enterprise Rent-A-Car offers a wide variety of car leasing, vanpooling, car sharing and hourly rental programs – and local car rental customers are picked up at no extra cost. As a management assistant, I expedited the transportation, inventory, storage, and tracking of company rental car fleet as well as customer service tracking. I was also responsible for conducting inventory, tracking, and storage of company rental fleet through Enterprise Holding's in-house logistics program. I coordinated route planning and shipping of company vehicles to company individual company branches throughout Southern California and the San Jose Bay area. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of Southern California ### Associate of Science - AS in Computer Science Foothill College ### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Education University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History University of Southern California ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sean-cawley-ab46ab64 --- Source: https://flows.cv/seancawley JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/seancawley/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11