Sean Egan

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Not to be confused with the artist Sean Egan, currently living in New York.

Sean Egan in Vancouver, Canada, 2006.

Sean Egan is the project leader of Gaim, a popular instant messaging client. He is also a software engineer at Google, where he has worked on Google Talk.

1 Biography
2 Published works
3 See also
4 External links
- 4.1 News media

[edit] Biography

Born on April 5, 1982, in Long Island, New York, Sean Egan graduated from Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York and earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Binghamton University with a major in computer science. He has been a major contributor to the field of open-source real-time communication software since 2000, when he started working on Gaim, an open-source, multi-protocol, cross-platform instant messaging application. Sean Egan became an official part of the team in January 2001 and is presently the main developer of the Gaim client, which is one of the most active projects on SourceForge.

He was hired by Google, Inc. in September 2005 as a software engineer on the Google Talk team. As a leader of the libjingle project, Sean Egan is focusing his efforts on ensuring interoperability in the voice features of XMPP-based instant messaging clients.

Sean Egan currently lives in Seattle, Washington, and enjoys playing his ukulele.

[edit] Published works

Egan, Sean M. Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim, Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2005. ISBN 1-59059-467-3. Sample chapter available online from Apress.