Hi, I'm Sean and I help engineering teams scale.

Code, infrastructure, delivery pipelines, engineering culture — wherever the team is getting stuck.

Sean Cansdale

Projects

Personal projects

Tabletop tooling

Mirabilis Beyond

Live public demo

Character management for a live campaign — roster, sheets, inventory vault, and optional AI-generated art. Public demo plus a gated table.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Vercel Blob
Mirabilis Beyond character sheet showing health, resolve, and ability scores

Interactive learning

AI Research

Deploying to ai.seancansdale.dev

Lexicon — an AI terminology guide, quiz, and a small neural network you can train in the browser epoch by epoch.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Client-side training loop
  • Custom network diagram
AI Research Network Lab — letter network diagram with training controls

Tabletop tooling

DND Puzzle

Live at dnd.seancansdale.dev

Interactive D&D session puzzles — drag-and-drop deity tiles, pipe-routing mazes, and more. Built to project at the table while DMing.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Drag-and-drop UI
DND Puzzle temple entrance — nine deity tiles on a 3×3 stone grid with Roman numeral targets

Experience

Where I've led teams

Full CV →
  • Senior Engineering Manager · 2 years

    Marketplace organisation — owned roadmap, delivery, and people leadership across multiple product teams, including Cursor adoption with secured tooling budget, React Native capability, and major martech migration work.

  • Engineering Manager · 5 years

    Zoopla website engineering — Engineering Manager with tech lead ownership of a greenfield Next.js frontend, platform savings, and property ingestion at scale.

Looking for work

Open to Hybrid engineering management roles in the UK. Message me on LinkedIn, or use the button below for my CV and experience.