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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Sean Melody

Sean Melody has held a variety of roles across a several companies since he started his career almost 20 years ago.\\xa0 He\\u2019s been an engineer, architect, team lead, dev manager, CTO, and now works for a small company as a Chief Technologist where he focuses on bringing new products to market in the automotive space.\\xa0 He does product development, especially with web front ends, and has done various back end and mobile projects throughout his career.\\xa0 He\\u2019s passionate about mentoring young and old, technical and non technical folks alike. \\xa0 Sean is an extrovert in a world of introverts and loves building things which is why he keeps finding himself close to the code, while still thinking about business and product concerns so that he can advise C level executives. \\xa0

Sean is an avid gardener and loves being outdoors with his family.\\xa0 He turned his passion for trivia and \\u201cfun facts\\u201d into an appearance on Jeopardy in 2019. Sean serves as volunteer Care Pantry Director for a local food pantry.\\xa0 He holds a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University and is a big supporter of the Wildcats.

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Quotes

\\u201cWe were tasked to build the final size of the organization, like 120 people, very rapidly.\\xa0 Within 3 to 4 months we had to hire all of these people across 3 locations and bootstrap everything.\\u201d (originally by Katie Thompson of Rally)

\\u201cWe were tasked to build the final size of the organization, like 120 people, very rapidly.\\xa0 Within 3 to 4 months we had to hire all of these people across 3 locations and bootstrap everything.\\u201d

\\u201cWhen you\\u2019re the son of teachers, there\\u2019s definitely this environment where you\\u2019re always learning something.\\u201d

\\u2014Sean Melody

Key Milestones

1. Sean was a guest on Jeopardy! What was your experience like?
2. What inspired Sean to get into tech?
3. The eternal question for many engineers often centers around deciding to go into management.\\xa0 How did Sean approach that question and what was his first engineering management job like?
4. What is the role of a senior architect?
5. Sean has also held very senior technical roles over the years, with titles like architect and principal software engineer.\\xa0 What are some of the key skills that you had to develop to function in those roles?

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