Sean Spradlin

Tech Lead | The Escape Game

December 2021 - Present

• Led the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of Great Big Game Show - a greenfield business unit now operating in 20 standalone locations and growing. Designed the platform ecosystem including the core game experience, hardware integration, content distribution, application versioning, and store operations.
• Established an AI-enabled knowledge platform by creating an MCP server and RAG pipeline to centralize technical documentation, allowing AI tooling to quickly gather context across services.
• Gained customer insights by creating the internal guest-tracking tool for both of the company's major business units to track operational performance and help tailor repeat guest experiences.
• Laid the foundations of internal operating system to allow in-store employees to track bookings, run games, submit issues, and view reports while also gathering insights about guests and their experiences.
• Established foundations of analytics architecture by centralizing business-critical data in Snowflake and developing the ingestion pipelines from third-party integrations.
• Professionalized the development team by establishing code review standards, mentoring engineers, laying the groundwork for CI/CD practices, and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Led the modernization effort of the company's marketing platform by defining the migration strategy to Next.js and Sanity CMS to improve search visibility, accessibility, and performance.
• Accelerated guest onboarding by building a waiver flow with SvelteKit to reduce check-in time between game sessions by several minutes.