Sean Oliver
Software Engineer
I'm a Growth Engineer at Supabase, where I blend technical expertise with user insights to build experiences that actually move the needle.
My path here was unconventional — I spent a decade growing products at Microsoft, LinkedIn, Lyft, and Block before diving headfirst into engineering. Most recently at Gamma, I helped build AI-powered tools that make creating and sharing ideas effortless.
What drives me is the intersection of human behavior and code — running experiments, digging into usage patterns, and crafting features that feel inevitable rather than forced. I work primarily with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, but I'm most excited when I'm turning data into decisions and hypotheses into shipped features.
I also write a newsletter about programming, productivity, and personal knowledge management.
I live in San Francisco, CA with my wife, two kids, and our 3.5-pound dog, Pixel (no relation to the phone). Outside of work, I love exploring productivity tools, experimenting with AI side projects, playing tennis, and designing casual mobile games.
TheraGPT
An AI-powered CBT journal to help people identify cognitive distortions and reframe negative thoughts.
Audioflare
An all-in-one AI audio playground using Cloudflare AI Workers to transcribe, analyze, summarize, and translate any audio file.
Smol Menubar
A menubar with Zero latency access to ChatGPT, Bard, Bing Chat, and Claude. I joined the Smol team out of a passion for LLMs and tools like this. Modularized chat providers and continue to maintain the project.
Supabase
Driving growth through experimentation and data-driven feature development at the open source Firebase alternative, building tools that help developers ship faster.
Gamma
Built AI-powered features for a platform that helps people share knowledge through interactive, multimodal docs that eliminate the dread of a blank page.
Smol AI
Building tools to help developers and enthusiasts leverage AI to be more creative, productive, and effective.
State Technologies
Building the future of AI-powered quote-to-cash solutions for enterprise organizations.
Story.com
Frontend engineer for a startup building a platform for creating and sharing stories with AI.
Block, Inc.
Led a cross-functional go-to-market effort for Square Team Communication, powered by the Crew app.
Crew
Expanded and directed a marketing team that significantly grew the customer base, launched numerous features, and executed webinars to boost new ARR and renewals.
Lyft
Led passenger GTM efforts, in tight coordination with operations, product, and engineering teams, introducing high-impact features like Scheduled Rides.
Optimizely
Launched Optimizely's first mobile app testing SDK. Created and implemented a comprehensive framework for measuring the success of in-product promotional messaging.
Implemented campaigns to activate lapsed users and improve user acquisition, while refining email marketing strategies for higher user engagement.
Microsoft
Managed product marketing for Windows Channel & Partner Marketing, significantly increasing sales and consumer impressions across stores.