Sean Carolan
Staff Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Carolan is a pragmatic systems administrator turned software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and automating secure infrastructure from Austin, Texas. He specializes in secrets management and cross-platform scripting, having contributed Vault automation for password rotation and dynamic database credentials across Linux and Windows environments. Sean blends classic sysadmin discipline with modern DevOps practices, integrating Vault APIs and GCP services to reduce operational toil. Describing himself as a "recovering System Administrator," he brings a practical, incident-aware perspective to engineering work and excels at making brittle operational processes auditable and repeatable.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Management, Bachelor’s Degree Management at University of PhoenixPunahou School
English
Github Skills (19)
apim10
scripting10
hashicorp-vault10
secrets10
script10
api10
system-administration10
sh10
powershell10
shell10
gcp9
automation9
automations9
mysql7
databases7
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault-guides
Apr 2018 - Aug 2021
Example usage of HashiCorp Vault secrets management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on developing scripts for password rotation using Vault and shell/PowerShell scripting. They created and refactored scripts for both Linux and Windows environments, demonstrating an understanding of system administration and secret management principles. Their contributions involved utilizing Vault's API for secure password storage and retrieval, and integrating with both Linux and Windows user management systems. Additionally, they integrated a new script for dynamic database credentials on GCP.
hashicorp-vaultvault-secretsvaulthashicorpsecrets
scarolan/spacelyspacesprockets
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Demo website that sells space sprockets
Contributions:117 commits, 65 PRs, 87 pushes in 10 months
sellszonesbackbonejsomsats
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