REEL I
ROCKET DATA
Built the backend that ingests and processes Blue Origin’s proprietary rocket test telemetry — real-time, large-scale, locked down.
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REEL II
A DRIVE-THRU THAT LISTENS
R&D for Chick-fil-A: a voice-ordering system built in Swift on OpenAI and open-source LLMs, backend on Kubernetes — plus AI and VR prototypes for visualizing the store itself.
REEL III
HUMAN HEARTS
A HIPAA cardiovascular remote-monitoring platform: five production Go services, device telemetry streaming through Redis hot storage into S3 archive, live clinical dashboards — designed, built, and operated in production alone. Deploys never blip a live monitoring session.
REEL IV
THE 36-SECOND REQUEST
A mobile-ordering API was timing out for one request in ten. Built the k6 load-test platform and Grafana observability from scratch, found the thread-pool starvation, and drove p95s from 36 seconds to 95 milliseconds — proven against baselines before every merge.
REEL V
220 DAYS → 43
A client had a 220-dev-day estimate on the table. Audited what already existed before writing anything new — the real number was 23–43 days, validated by their own engineers.
REEL VI
A FORTUNE-5 PAVED ROAD
At CVS Health, leading the squad building the platform that provisions Google Cloud services with zero manual steps — security by default, 15+ engineers shipping it.
REEL VII
THE FBI IS ON LINE ONE
For CLEAR: the microservice line that registers travelers for TSA PreCheck, integrating with the FBI through a third-party vendor — deployed to AWS GovCloud.
REEL VIII
FRACKING PUMPS OVER RS-232
Petroleum engineer by degree, so: rescued a buggy fracking-truck pump-control system — rewrote the Java agents talking to hardware over UDP, RS-232, and TCP.
REEL IX
TRACTORS ON THE INTERNET
Grain carts run embedded Linux with no connectivity — so built the iOS app that finds them over Bluetooth LE and shares the iPad’s connection with the tractor.
REEL X
RADIOS FOR SOLDIERS
For Harris: the app a soldier uses to configure a truckload of military radios at once instead of one at a time — wrote the entire UI.
REEL XI
250,000 PLAYERS
As CTO of a gaming startup, took a prototype to production: a real-time multiplayer social game sustaining 250K+ users and hundreds of simultaneous games.
REEL XII
SURVIVES AWS GOING DOWN
For Comcast: a device-telemetry microservice designed to finish its job even while the cloud under it is failing — plus CI/CD where entire environments are created and destroyed in minutes.
REEL XIII
DAYS OF HR WORK → ONE CLICK
For Zappos: a one-source-of-truth system wiring HR, IT, payroll, and billing together — onboarding an employee went from days of emails to a single action.
REEL XIV
A DUNGEON CRAWLER OVER SMS
Built a serverless AI assistant that lives entirely in text messages — including a full roguelike dungeon crawler you play by SMS, powered by Claude on Amazon Bedrock.
REEL XV
TALKING INSTEAD OF TYPING
Built and released blurt and yap: push-to-talk dictation for macOS and Linux that runs entirely on-device, sub-second, no cloud — because talking to AI is half the job now and typing is the bottleneck.
— HOW EVERY PICTURE GETS MADE —
BASELINECHANGELOAD TESTPROVEPROMOTE
Measure before and after touching anything. Flag guesses as guesses.
AI-augmented delivery, with accountability: I direct the agents, run the tests, and own every commit.
Audit what exists before estimating what doesn’t.
— TECHNICAL CREDITS —
LANGUAGES
Go · TypeScript · Python · Java / Spring Boot · Swift · Node.js
CLOUD
AWS (CDK, IoT Core, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, VPC & Client VPN, Step Functions, Cognito, GovCloud) · Google Cloud (GKE, Vertex AI, PubSub) · Azure DevOps · AKS
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
CDK · Terraform · CDKTF · Kubernetes (EKS · AKS · GKE) · Docker · ArgoCD
AI
OpenAI & open-source LLMs · Amazon Bedrock (Claude) · On-device speech (MLX, Parakeet, ONNX) · Multi-agent orchestration
RELIABILITY & PROOF
k6 · Grafana + InfluxDB · OpenTelemetry · Temporal · p95/p99 tail analysis · SLOs
DATA & REALTIME
MQTT · Redis · DynamoDB · Postgres · WebSockets / SSE · gRPC · Spark
— NOW SHOWING —
Leading platform automation for CVS Health’s Google Cloud transformation
Running a production HIPAA cardiac-monitoring platform, solo
Open source: blurt (macOS) and yap (Linux) — local push-to-talk dictation[blurt][yap]
The home lab: local video generation, full-duplex voice models, real-time sound classification, a fleet of orchestrated coding agents
STARRING
SEAN DENTON
AS THE ARCHITECT · THE TECH LEAD · THE CTO · AND THE GUY STILL WRITING THE CODE
PETROLEUM ENGINEER BY DEGREE (UT AUSTIN) · TWENTY-PLUS YEARS SHIPPING SOFTWARE INSTEAD · PATENT US 8,887,290 B1
DIRECTED BY SEAN DENTON · WRITTEN BY SEAN DENTON · PRODUCED BY SEAN DENTON
SHOT ON LOCATION IN GEORGETOWN, TX · RUNNING TIME 20+ YEARS · NOT RATED — PROVEN
ALSO APPEARING: Blue Origin · CVS Health · Chick-fil-A · Comcast · General Motors · Clear · Amtrak · Kubota · Harris · Zappos · Walmart · T-Mobile · Trane · iMemories · Cardio · Zonal