Sean Quigley

Founder at Surface AI

Overview

Sean Quigley is founder at Surface AI [1], a position Quigley has held since March 2025 [2]. Prior to founding Surface AI, Quigley held several roles at GIPHY, including VP of Product Engineering from March to August 2024 [3], Director of Engineering from July 2023 to March 2024 [4], Senior Staff Software Engineer from January to May 2020 [6], Search Engineering Lead from January 2018 to May 2020 [7], and Search Platform Engineer from November 2016 to December 2017 [8]. Quigley also worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Meta from May 2020 to June 2023 [5] and as a Data Engineer at Shutterstock from April 2014 to October 2016 [9]. Quigley holds a B.S. in Physics and Economics from the University of Michigan, earned between 2006 and 2010 [10], and completed coursework in data science and machine learning at General Assembly in 2013 [11].

Career history

  1. FounderMar 2025 to presentSurface AI
  2. VP, Product EngineeringMar 2024 to Aug 2024GIPHY
  3. Director of EngineeringJul 2023 to Mar 2024GIPHY
  4. Staff Software EngineerMay 2020 to Jun 2023Meta
  5. Senior Staff Software EngineerJan 2020 to May 2020GIPHY
  6. Search Engineering LeadJan 2018 to May 2020GIPHY
  7. Search Platform EngineerNov 2016 to Dec 2017GIPHY
  8. Data EngineerApr 2014 to Oct 2016Shutterstock
  9. Data EngineerShutterstock, Inc.

Education

  1. B.S., Physics, Economics2006 - 2010University of Michigan
  2. Data science and machine learning2013 - 2013General Assembly

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