Sean G. Wright

Hello 👋, my name's Sean and I'm a Lead Product Evangelist at Kentico and Founding Partner of Craft Brewing Business.

#Find me on the internet

• DEV.to
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• GitHub
• Stack Overflow

#Work Experience

Present

• Founding Partner, IT Director, Web Application Developer

  2012/12 - Present
  CBB Media LLC

  Web developer (CSS, Javascript, PHP, Mariadb, Wordpress, Docker, ASP.NET Core, VueJs) for B2B online publication catering to the Craft Beer Industry.

  Managing web development, social media, videography, client advertising campaigns, e-newsletter, web hosting, DNS.

  https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com

• Lead Product Evangelist

  2023/03 - Present
  Kentico Software

  Product marketing, partner enablement, community growth, product messaging

  https://www.kentico.com

Past

• Chief Solutions Architect

  2013/05 - 2023/03
  WiredViews

  Leading the development team in new technology use, implementing best practices, daily training and education.

  Architecting and developing web sites / applications built using Angular, AngularJs, Vuejs, Kentico Xperience and ASP.NET Web API/MVC, ASP.NET Core.

  Consulting for clients needing techincal leadership and assistance for in-house development teams.

  Managing and architecting Azure cloud operations / hosting services including DNS, development / production environments, deployments, CI/CD, performance monitoring, and provisioning.

  https://www.wiredviews.com

• Web Developer, IT Operations Manager

  2011/09 - 2013/05
  JB Dollar Stretcher Magazine

  Developing propriertary web applications for ERP, service/product contracts, and CRM using ASP, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, and MS Access Db.

  Maintaining and configuring all physical and digital computing resources, including work stations, networking, file servers, web servers, backup managment, and inventory.

#Education

• Kent State University

  Bachelors of Science - Computer Science (2008)

• Kent State University

  Bachelors of Arts - Mathematics (2008)

#Community

#Talks & Presentations

• CONDG July 2021 - Sean Wright - Modeling Missing Data / The Maybe Monad
  2021/07/22
• Ask the Experts: Xperience Edition (YouTube Stream Series)
  2020 - Present
• Content Driven Development: Or, Why the WYSIWYG Can Be a Trap (Video)
  2020/10/29 2020/11/03 2020/11/05
• Functional Programming - Partial Application in 3 Languages (C#, JavaScript, F#)
  2020/04/16
• Kentico Connection Denver 2019 - From the Ground Up: Kentico 12 MVC Design Patterns
  2019/10/2
• Bringing new .NET Core features to old .NET Framework libraries
  2019/8/6
• ng-conf 2019 - Technical Writers Summit: Writing Style and Formatting
  2019/5/2
• What is Your Content Security Policy?
  2019/02/21
• The Framework Features Anti-Pattern
  2018
• Leading Practices for Angular Projects
  2018
• Teach me something I don't know: Lightening Talks
  2017
  Scripting build processes with NodeJs / Typescript discriminated unions
• Making Angular 1 Great Again: Components, Typescript and JSPM
  2016

#Articles

• Kentico Xperience 13 Refresh 1 brings back the debug module for .NET Core apps
  2021/03 - xperience.io
• Application Configuration in ASP.NET Core
  2021/01 - xperience.io
• ASP.NET Core: What is Dependency Injection?
  2020/11 - xperience.io
• Bits of Xperience: Developer Community Resources
  2020/09 - devnet.kentico.com
• Kentico 12 MVC Design Patterns - MVC Widget Tips
  2020/03 - devnet.kentico.com
• Kentico 12 MVC Design Patterns - A Primer
  2019/08 - devnet.kentico.com
• Bits of Xperience: Developer Community Resources
  2019/09 - devnet.kentico.com
• Bits of Xperience: Developer Community Resources
  2019/09 - devnet.kentico.com

#Blogging

• Kentico Xperience Design Patterns
• Kentico Xperience - MVC Widget Experiments
• Bits of Xperience
• Kentico Xperience Xplorations
• Kentico Xperience 13 Beta
• Kentico EMS - MVC Widget Experiments
• Kentico 12 - Design Patterns
• Kentico Quick Tips
• Moving Beyond Angular's Style Guide

#Awards

• Kentico Xperience MVP (2023)
• Kentico Xperience MVP (2022)
• Kentico Xperience MVP (2021)
• Kentico Xperience MVP (2020)

#Meetups

• Akron Software Craftsmanship
• Canton Software Craftsmanship
• Akron Code Club
• Ohio North SQL Server User Group - Akron-Canton
• Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group
• Hudson Software Craftsmanship Meetup

#Conferences

• Kentico Xperience Connection 2022 Attendee / Speaker
• Kentico Xperience Connection 2020 Attendee / Speaker
• Kentico Connection Attendee 2019 Attendee / Speaker
• Ng Conf Attendee from 2014-2019

#Open Source

• Typescript Functional Extensions
• Kentico Xperience 13 Style Guide
• FShopOnWeb
• Payroll Processor

#Career Interests

Platforms and Languages

• ASP.NET Core
• Azure Functions
• Progressive Web Apps
• Vue.Js (Nuxt.Js)
• F#
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Angular architecture

Paradigms and Patterns

• Unit Testing
• Dependency Injection
• Domain Driven Design
• AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
• Functional Programming
• Continuous Integration
• Evolvable Monoliths
• Content Management