Hi, I’m Sean Farrell. I’m a senior AI and full-stack technology leader based in Miami, FL, with 10+ years of building and scaling AI-powered SaaS products across B2B and B2C. I thrive in fast-moving startups, leading agile teams from concept through production with a strong product focus and startup mindset. I currently lead AI platform initiatives at Optikka, architect agentic AI systems, and drive end-to-end solutions that improve latency, throughput, and asset iteration. I enjoy mentoring engineers and shaping AI strategy across platforms, and I’m excited to explore opportunities where I can combine product focus with hands-on AI and platform-scale impact.

Sean Farrell

Hi, I’m Sean Farrell. I’m a senior AI and full-stack technology leader based in Miami, FL, with 10+ years of building and scaling AI-powered SaaS products across B2B and B2C. I thrive in fast-moving startups, leading agile teams from concept through production with a strong product focus and startup mindset. I currently lead AI platform initiatives at Optikka, architect agentic AI systems, and drive end-to-end solutions that improve latency, throughput, and asset iteration. I enjoy mentoring engineers and shaping AI strategy across platforms, and I’m excited to explore opportunities where I can combine product focus with hands-on AI and platform-scale impact.

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Hi, I’m Sean Farrell. I’m a senior AI and full-stack technology leader based in Miami, FL, with 10+ years of building and scaling AI-powered SaaS products across B2B and B2C. I thrive in fast-moving startups, leading agile teams from concept through production with a strong product focus and startup mindset.

I currently lead AI platform initiatives at Optikka, architect agentic AI systems, and drive end-to-end solutions that improve latency, throughput, and asset iteration. I enjoy mentoring engineers and shaping AI strategy across platforms, and I’m excited to explore opportunities where I can combine product focus with hands-on AI and platform-scale impact.

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Work Experience

Senior AI Tech Lead at Optikka
January 1, 2023 - Present
Led design and evolution of an LLM-driven AI platform supporting GenAI, agentic AI, and RAG-based intelligence. Decomposed a monolithic full-stack app into 10+ modular services with versioned, contract-driven APIs enabling 2x more frequent, lower-risk deployments. Delivered a high-performance frontend for an online design platform with offline-first/rendering capabilities, real-time previews, and AI-assisted creation. Architected AI/ML inference pipelines on AWS Bedrock powering NLP classification and semantic search, optimizing latency by 10% and throughput by 1.5x. Built a multi-agent chatbot/orchestration layer executing 1K+ actions/day, enabling agents to plan, invoke tools, validate outputs, and leverage a knowledge graph for context memory and reasoning. Led a team of 5 AI engineers and mentored junior staff; promoted to drive agentic AI strategy across platforms.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Google
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2023
Designed an agentic AI infrastructure orchestrating ML inference, business rules, and state-driven workflows to automate end-to-end marketing operations within Google Ads, reducing manual campaign/creative management effort by 20% and time-to-launch. Led development of AI-enabled product features across creative platforms, building full-stack workflows for creative ingestion, metadata intelligence, and campaign optimization for 1M+ advertisers. Implemented RAG-backed agentic workflows to retrieve relevant creative, performance data, and policy constraints to generate actionable insights, improving recommendation relevance by 20%. Built full-stack apps (React/TypeScript + back-end services) surfacing ML-driven insights and next-best actions, accelerating adoption of automated optimization.
Software Engineer at Adobe
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2018
Owned scalability and performance of an enterprise DAM platform with 10M+ assets, optimizing indexing, REST APIs, and asynchronous workflows to improve ingestion throughput and search response times by 15%. Developed API-driven services and workflow integrations to surface ML-inference results (auto-tagging, classification) within ingestion/approval pipelines, supporting 10K+ daily API calls. Implemented metadata governance across 20M+ assets with Java-based validation/enrichment and Python automation, reducing invalid metadata by ~50%. Built Python-based pipelines to normalize/enrich asset metadata powering ML-driven tagging and content intelligence, reducing manual classification effort by 40%.
Web Developer at EPAM Systems
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015
Implemented Java back-end systems migrating 6+ modules to a SOA with Spring MVC and Hibernate REST services, supporting 10K+ daily transactions. Built Node.js API layers (MERN) integrating with Java services to improve page response times by 25%. Developed Python batch/event-driven services processing data from 5+ back-end systems, reducing manual reconciliation by 25%. Expanded automated test coverage to 70%+, lowering production regressions by 10%. Led API development, mentored junior developers, enforced coding standards, and improved documentation quality, reducing defects by 20%.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University of Florida
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2013

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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services