About
Hello, internet. My name is Sean (pronounced to ryhme with John). I write software. I live in Vancouver, Canada. I'm a Zillenial (geriatric Gen-Z?).
I've lived on the west coast of Canada my whole life, primarily on
Vancouver Island.
I attended the University of Victoria,
where I studied Mechanical Software Engineering, with a
somewhat discordant focus on both embedded systems and on artificial
intelligence. I graduated with a Bachelors of Software Engineering.
I've always been interested in how software can be integrated into the "real world".
The underlying interest which lead be towards a career in engineering is space. I recall as a child watching this scene (and the movie broadly) being a formative experience in my figuring out what I wanted to do in life.
I was involved in undergraduate rocketry and satellite design teams in university. This culminated in the opportunity to work with some very talented people designing the RF communication subsystem for ORCASat - which spent 195 days in low Earth orbit.
Professionally, I write embedded C++ for motion-automation applications. In my spare time I'm working on a game engine. I like to tinker and build. When I have more space I'd love to get into something more hands-on, but for now, I mostly write code.
I like to read. I like to run. Hiking is negotiable. I'm trying my hand at some artwork (inspired by a game project I'm working on). And, most recently I like to write on the internet.
I share my name with many others on the internet. Unfortunately, some of them are way cooler. I mean, a race car driver and an actor?—Tough break. There are only few Google search results that I am associated with, and they are likely all linked to from this site.
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The first incarnation of this site went live at seanmcauliffe.ca in early 2024. I entirely remade the site in early 2025. You might be visiting it at either smca.dev (canonical) or seanmcauliffe.ca.
Designed and developed by me, with inspiration taken from many places on the indie-web.
Built with 11ty and hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS.
The primary typeface used is Recursive The header typeface is Signika Negative All fonts and other static assets are delivered from my server, not from third parties.
Code-block syntax highlighting uses the GitHub Dark Dimmed theme.
SVG icons are sourced from iconnmonstr.
This site is statically generated. The build processes uses the following dependencies: