Sean Oliver
Software Engineer
I’m a software engineer at Gamma obsessed with AI, PKM, and productivity. I have 13 years of experience building and growing products at leading companies like Microsoft, LinkedIn, Lyft, and Block.
My background in marketing and growth has taught me that the best marketing is a product that prioritizes users’ needs above all else and then meets those needs in ways that feel natural and effortless.
I have a newsletter where I write about programming, productivity, personal knowledge management.
I live in San Francisco, CA with my amazing wife, two children, and our 3.5 lbs dog named Pixel (no relation to the phone). I love productivity tools and systems, personal knowledge management, AI, tennis, and casual mobile games.
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.
Gamma
Building a new platform that helps people share knowledge in ways that engage, using AI-powered, 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.
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.
I love reading, but not with my eyes. I've been addicted to audiobooks since 2019 on a trip to China when I gulped down Bad Blood, Educated, and a few other totally kickass books. I aim to "read" about 30 books per year, and usually hit it.
Here are the 30 I've read most recently: