Open Source Software Engineer

Sean Glover is a Software Engineer on the Search Systems team at MongoDB, based in Toronto, Canada. Previously, he served as a Staff Software Engineer at Hopper. Sean is a member of the Apache Software Foundation where he helps to maintain the Apache Pekko project as a PMC member and committer. Before that, he was a core member of the Akka team. He is also the co-author of the O'Reilly publication, Designing Fast Data Application Architectures.

Sean specializes in search, distributed systems, data streaming, and generative AI and LLMs, leveraging technologies such as Pekko/Akka, Akka Streams, Scala, Java, Go, Kafka, Spark, and Kubernetes. He has been invited to speak at conferences worldwide, including Kafka Summit, O'Reilly Strata Conference, Reactive Summit, DataEngConf, and Scale By The Bay. As an open source contributor and maintainer, Sean advances the ecosystems of Apache Pekko, Akka, and Apache Kafka.

Sean volunteers with North York Community House (NYCH) as a professional mentor of newcomers to Canada. He organized the Scala Toronto (scalator) meetup for 12 years, growing it into one of the largest Scala communities in North America with nearly 2,000 members.

For additional details about Sean's work and expertise, please visit his LinkedIn profile or view his latest resume.