Sean Egan

Not to be confused with Seán Egan.

Sean Egan is a software engineer at Google, where he worked on Google Talk and is currently working on Google Maps. He is the former project leader of Pidgin, a popular instant messaging client. He is also the author of the book Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim.

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 Pidgin, an open-source, multi-protocol, cross-platform instant messaging application. Sean Egan became an official part of the Pidgin team in January 2001 and was maintainer of Pidgin from early 2002 until April 2008 when he announced his retirement.

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.

Published works

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

See also

• Pidgin
• Google Talk

External links

• seanegan Egan's user page at the Pidgin Instant Messaging Client website
• Speaker Profile, O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference

News media

• Elinor Mills (February 27, 2006). "Who's who of Google hires". CNET News. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013.
• Stuart Henshall (January 30, 2006). "Sean Egan ETel". Skype Journal. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008.
• Eugenia Loli-Queru (November 12, 2005). "Sean Egan on Gaim's Future". OSNews.
• Ben Charny (October 17, 2005). "Google's Got Gaim". eWeek.
• Matthew Herper (July 16, 2002). "Better Instant Messaging Through Linux". Forbes.