Dean Sheehan
Field CTO at InfluxData
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Sheehan is a Field CTO with over 8 years in his current role and more than two decades of hands-on engineering and executive experience across cloud, security and product leadership. He has led solutions and services at cloud-native platform companies including InfluxData and Apcera, and founded/served as CTO for multiple startups, demonstrating a blend of technical depth and commercial leadership. His background spans software architecture to CEO responsibilities, with an MBA from Cambridge complementing a BSc in Computer Science and informing his product-to-market strategy. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he specializes in hybrid cloud governance, developer platforms and operationalizing secure, policy-driven deployments. Not obvious at first glance: he has repeatedly shifted between founder/operator and enterprise-focused roles, giving him a rare perspective on both rapid innovation and large-scale governance constraints.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at University of CambridgeBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (39)
monitoring10
json10
timeseries-database10
mqtt10
telegraf10
kafka10
time-series10
grafana10
datastore10
analytics10
agent10
go10
prometheus10
golang10
rust10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DeanASheehan/test-app
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:107 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 3 months
deanasheehan/telegraf
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Contributions:1 release, 31 pushes, 12 tags in 6 months
snmpagentreportingpmmcollecting
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