# Sean Morton

> Staff Software Engineer @ Pelotech

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/seanmorton

I'm a technical leader focused on pragmatic software approaches to deliver business value quickly. I strive to create environments where teams embrace learning and continuous improvement via better tooling and automation.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Pelotech
Jan 2024 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apex Fintech Solutions
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pelotech
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Pelotech partners with Fortune 500 clients building backend cloud native applications with a focus on containerization and Kubernetes.

- Lead development of backend API systems using Golang, Java, and Node.js
- Migrate legacy architectures to Kubernetes with IAC and GitOps
- Direct company recruiting efforts by designing and conducting interviews
- Build personal relationships with clients to bolster company sales efforts

### Software Engineer @ Tally Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tally is a consumer lending app that makes people less stressed and better off financially. 

- Technical owner of Scala backend which powers the company's core business
- Lead development of both new features and large-scale refactors  
- Increased team deployment speed as well as monitoring, alerting, and on-call capabilities
- Collaborate with product owners to quickly prototype new ideas

### Software Engineer @ Sonder Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Sonder is new category in hotels and travel with an inspiring, award-winning approach to design that meets modern, mobile-first service to build the future of hospitality.

- Built a mobile app and supporting API that powers critical internal operations
- Joined as 3rd engineer and helped build the team to ~30 engineers
- Took ownership of product research, planning, and prioritization in absence of formal PM team

### Software Engineer @ Payable
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Payable was the easiest way to manage your external workforce by simplifying and automating onboarding, payments, and 1099 compliance. Acquired by Stripe in 2017.

- Full stack development with Rails and AngularJS
- Optimized performance of a system that generated hundreds of thousands of tax forms.
- Led customer support operations and built tools to automate common support tasks
- Joined as 5th engineer and learned rapidly under the close mentorship of veteran engineers

### Software Engineer @ TermSync, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
- Full stack Rails development of a startup's B2B accounting product

### Software Engineer @ Tixora
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
Tixora is the best way to manage the ticketing experience for bus companies and received 1st @ UW Burrill Business Plan Competition and 3rd @ UW CS Dept. NEST Competition.

- Lead backend development with Rails
- Optimized and designed queries in a NoSQL graph database

### Software Engineer @ University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
UW's Department of Surgery builds custom Rails application to power internal operations.

- Full stack development with Rails and Apache Cordova
- Consulted with surgeons to determine product requirements and gather feedback.

### Software Engineer @ Self Employed
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Skokie, IL
- Contracted with CuraLinc Healthcare to build a mobile application with Apache Cordova


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/smorton517
- Website: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~smorton
- GitHub: https://github.com/seanmorton/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22