Kevin Sheeran

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DISC Type : i

Director, Head of Engineering at Spot & Tango

New York, New York, United States

Overview

Kevin Sheeran directs engineering at Spot & Tango, leading a 10-person team for the high-growth pet wellness brand. A Penn State University graduate with over 10 years of experience at Amazon and Cisco, colleagues describe him as an outstanding "rockstar" engineer who builds scalable e-commerce systems.

He maintains a professional interest in the work of his former employer, Cisco, as well as the technology and aerospace company Lockheed Martin.

Kevin is a patented inventor and recently spoke at a New York AI Engineers event on using AI to make Jira tickets resolve themselves.

Personality Overview

Consensus Focused

Optimistic

Amiable & Agreeable

They tend to be agreeable by nature, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.
  Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials. They prefer to build relationships rather than staying totally transactional.

Topics They Care About

AI in Development
Recently presented a talk on using AI to automate software development, specifically for resolving Jira tickets and generating integration tests for his team at Spot & Tango.
Scaling E-commerce
Leads engineering for a high-growth ($100M+ ARR) e-commerce subscription brand, focusing on building scalable fulfillment and sales systems with Python, React, and AWS.
Engineering Leadership
He leads a 10-person engineering team, is actively hiring senior talent, and focuses on increasing his team's velocity and efficiency.

Media Appearances

Kevin has no verified media appearances

Work History

4-2025
Director, Head of Engineering at Spot & Tango
8-2023 - 4-2025
Head of Engineering at Spot & Tango
10-2021 - 8-2023
Founding Software Engineer at Courier Health
7-2018 - 10-2021
Full Stack Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
6-2015 - 7-2018
Full Stack Software Engineer at Cisco

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Penn State University

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Insights For Selling To Kevin

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Ask them how their day is going or exchange some other pleasantries
  • Compliment them about their personality if you get a chance
  • Speak from experience about success that the product has seen with other customers

DONT's

  • Don’t push them for a direct ‘no’, take lack of ‘yes’ as ‘no’ after some time
  • Don't be critical or challenge them openly, they can react defensively
  • Don’t be too formal with them, they trust informality more

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Kevin is

  • Relationship and rapport are valuable for them, but so is proven product value.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Kevin

  • They are unlikely to say no directly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Kevin move?

  • They are not very fast decision makers, even while they continue to stay engaged.
  • Can Kevin take some risk or not?

  • They can take some low-probability risks if needed.

You And Kevin

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