Sean Chow

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Software Engineering Graduate, passionate about product 📊 and cloud technologies ☁.

Product Manager @ Two Sigma

Work Experience

Product Manager
Two Sigma
New York City, New York
Jan 2023 - Present

Sr. Product Manager
Kong
New York City, New York
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022

Product Manager
Datadog
New York City, New York
May 2020 - Sep 2021

• Led strategic planning for the Marketplace team, owning the product strategy, road map and shipping of features, through creation of product specifications and agile development
• Grew the partner integration ecosystem by overseeing the on-boarding and development of 80+ technology partner contributions from product specification phase to release, including the launch of go-to-market activities
• Brought the Datadog Marketplace from ideation to go-to-market, launching an ecosystem of partner created integrations and products that could be sold directly to customers

Product Management Intern
Datadog
New York City, New York
May 2019 - August 2019

• Led strategic planning for the containers integration team, focusing on the instrumentation and visibility of the Datadog agent on platforms such as Kubernetes, GKE and EKS, growing adoption of the integrations by 21%
• Wrote a specification and coordinated engineering and design work to improve the live containers page, releasing with a go to market strategy including blog posts, dashboards, a PRFAQ and marketing material
• Conducted over 30 customer interviews, gathering insight and driving the product vision through the creation of quarterly OKRs

Software Engineer Intern
Wave
Toronto, Canada
Jan 2019 - May 2019

A fintech startup based out of Toronto which offers financial services including accounting, invoicing, payments and payroll. Worked on the Developer Systems team, a team designed to improve developer efficiency, effectiveness and education. Contributions have inlcuded creating an internal Django web page caching package in Python3, with a built-in metrics logging system connected to Datadog. Have also worked extensively in optimizing Docker images on both local and production environments to improve build times and performance.

Software Developer Intern
Zenreach
Waterloo, Canada
May 2018 - August 2018

A late stage startup which modernizes marketing for the offline world. Made the 2017 break out list, backed by venture capatalists of the likes of Peter Thiel and Kevin Durant. Work includes fulfilling product iniatives through creating front end features coded in Javascript/HTML/CSS leveraging the React framework and backend services in Django.

Software Developer Intern
Freshbooks
Toronto, Canada
Sept 2017 - December 2017

A cloud accounting software as a service which makes accounting accessible and easy for small businesses. Work includes implementing product functionality and performing experiments via A/B (split) testing. Engineered front end functionality using Javascript/HTML/CSS in the EmberJS framework and backend functions in Python in the Flask framework. Automatic tests were created using the Cucumber mark down language and Selenium.

Software Developer Intern
Tulip
Waterloo, Canada
May 2017 - August 2017

Tulip is an application which puts power into the sales associate's hand to assist brick and mortar stores. Used PHP to transform client data and write SQL queries to insert them as defined objects to be used by the application. Also focused on the creation of dashboards to display key metrics and analytics on the application in vanilla Javascript.

Software Developer Intern
VSETA
Toronto, Canada
April 2016 - August 2016

VSETA aimed at using IOT technologies, specifically iBeacons, to solve inefficiences in everyday life. Created the mobile app using the Apache Cordova framework written in Javascript/HTML/CSS. Provided an unique and end user focused experience through innovative mobile design patterns.

Work Term Report

Read a little more about my work experience here:
- Datadog
- Zenreach
- Freshbooks
- Tulip

School

Graduated the Software Engineering (Co-op) program at the University of Guelph with a minor in statistics.

Technical Skills

Languages

  • Excited about:
    • Javascript
    • Python
    • SQL
    • HTML5
    • CSS3
  • And experience with:
    • - C
    • - PHP
    • - Perl
    • - Java

Frameworks

  • Have used:
    • - Django
    • - Flask
    • React/Redux
    • EmberJS
    • - Apache Cordova
    • Node.js
  • Built on top of:
    • - Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS)
    • - Docker
    • - REST Api Design
    • - MongoDB
    • - MYSQL
    • - iPython

Projects

Just A Bit - Created for Hack the North 2016, at the University of Waterloo. The application detects nearby iBeacons and gives the user the option to donate a custom amount towards the street performer. Using Coinbase's API, we were able to create a secure, private and effective POS system.

Veil - Created for Guelph Hacks 2018, at the University of Guelph. Veil was a mobile application was made to solve the problem of providing health care information for inviduals or populations with poor or no internet access. This was achieved did this by using the Right Mesh API to allow P2P data transfer through a mesh network.

Inbox Marketer Research Project - Under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Gillis, I worked closely with a local e-mail marketing company to investigate their data set and generate actionable insights. Using Tensorflow and iPython I was able to groom the dataset, and train a machine learning model (Linear Regression & Recursive Neural Network) to predic the best times to send an email during the day, per industry.

Awards

  • Just A Bit:
    Winner of best use of Coinbase's API (1st)
    - Hack the North 2016
  • Veil:
    Winner of best use of Rightmesh's API (1st)
    - Guelph Hacks 2018