Sean Brown

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Sanford, NC, United States

About

Full-stack software engineer with 6 years of software and web experience, preceded by a six-year electrical engineering career. Builds and modernizes business-critical web applications, internal tools, e-commerce workflows, and cloud-hosted systems across JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Next.js, PHP/Node, databases, AWS, Microsoft 365/Intune, and cybersecurity. Quickly learns unfamiliar systems, collaborates across teams, and favors modular, maintainable solutions that reduce operational friction.

Experience

Apex Waves

Web Developer

Apex Waves

Nov 2025 – May 2026

Provider of procurement, repair, calibration, customization, and resale services for legacy electronic test and measurement hardware, primarily National Instruments / NI equipment. • Modernized legacy e-commerce and internal operations systems supporting inventory management, quote requests, RMA intake, order fulfillment, customer checkout, and procurement. • Reworked core back-end logic across inventory, quote-management, RMA, and fulfillment workflows, improving maintainability and reducing day-to-day operational friction. • Redesigned checkout workflows to reduce customer friction while strengthening fraud-resistant order and payment handling. • Audited AWS resources, pruned unused EC2 instances, and streamlined server usage, reducing estimated monthly spend from approximately $12,000 to $2,500. • Built high-speed internal micro-applications that removed bottlenecks and gave staff faster access to inventory, procurement, and fulfillment data. • Improved database management practices by reducing unnecessary data and process overhead that slowed quote, inventory, and fulfillment workflows. • Developed procurement intelligence utilities to surface stock availability and pricing data from eBay and other secondary-market sources. • Designed diagnostic and data-visibility tools and built regression coverage to make workflow failures easier to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve. • Rebuilt six subsidiary websites and redesigned the public free-tools suite as an extensible PHP/vanilla-JavaScript micro-SPA configured without major code changes.

AWS EC2PHPJavaScript
Sibylline, Ltd.

Technical Developer - Front End / Cybersecurity / IT

Sibylline, Ltd.

Jun 2020 – Nov 2025

• Created, managed, and maintained Sibylline's front-end online presence, supporting responsive UI/UX, branding, and company image. • Designed responsive UI/UX for internal utilities deployed to employees, improving day-to-day workflow and access to key information. • Developed a full-stack MERN application that pulled, searched, visualized, and exported UK Crime Reports API data for analyst use. • Engineered Microsoft Intune MDM/MAM policy and configuration infrastructure from the ground up, strengthening endpoint security and simplifying onboarding. • Built Microsoft Power Platform applications and automations with Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate to streamline onboarding, offboarding, and office processes. • Spearheaded cybersecurity initiatives including phishing simulations, active threat response, and a cybersecurity/phishing training course focused on AI-driven risks. • Configured and administered Microsoft 365, Azure/Entra, Intune, SharePoint, Teams, and Exchange while resolving Tier I and Tier II IT issues.

ReactMicrosoft 365Power BI

Education

Washington State University

Washington State University

B.S. Electrical Engineering

2015
Bellevue College

Bellevue College

A.S. Arts & Sciences

2012
Bellevue College

Bellevue College

A.S. Sciences · Physics & Engineering

2012