Shawn Sesna
Senior Solutions Architect at Octopus Deploy
Lacey, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Sesna is a senior solutions architect with 10 years of DevOps and enterprise IT experience, specializing in CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure as code. Based in Lacey, Washington, he serves as Senior Solutions Architect at Octopus Deploy, having progressed through roles including Solutions Architect and Continuous Delivery Architect to drive end-to-end release automation across databases, web apps, and reporting services. His government IT career includes modernizing agencies with automated builds, DSC, automated deployments via Octopus Deploy, and automated UI testing, dramatically reducing deployment risk and production lead times. An active open-source contributor, he has extended Octopus Deploy with step templates and PowerShell enhancements, and contributed to DSC modules on GitHub such as xSQLServer, SqlServerDSC, and OctopusDSC. He holds a Bachelor's and an Associate degree in Management Information Systems from Saint Martin's College and Pierce College, reflecting a strong foundation in both business and technology.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at Saint Martin's CollegeAssociate's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Associate's degree, Management Information Systems, General at Pierce College
Github Skills (13)
sql-databases10
databases10
javascript10
octopus-deploy10
javascripts10
data-integration10
sql-database10
node-js9
gulp9
automations8
automation8
powershell-77
powershell7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OctopusDeploy/Library
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
| Public | A repository of step templates and other community-contributed extensions to Octopus Deploy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 304 commits, 329 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on adding and updating entries in the `gulpfile.babel.js` file. These changes involved adding case statements for different database and service integrations, indicating work related to step templates and extensions for Octopus Deploy. They also fixed an issue with a PowerShell script related to PS Core and made small edits to the same file. This suggests a focus on backend configuration and integration capabilities.
octopustemplateextensionsoctopus-deploy
OctopusDeployLabs/gitlab-octocli
Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
A GitLab compatible Octopus CLI Docker image.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 11 months
docker-imagedockergitlabdocker-clioctopus
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