Summary
Sean Clayton is a seasoned Site Reliability and Infrastructure engineer with 11 years’ experience modernizing CI/CD and cloud-native deployments across companies like Classmates, Flipboard, McGraw Hill, and Indeed. He specializes in pipeline-as-code (notably dagger.io and GitLab CI), Terraform-driven infrastructure, and EKS migrations, often creating bespoke tooling that simplifies operations and lowers costs—one monitoring redesign saved his employer roughly $40k/month in non-prod. Sean is a hands-on mentor who translates complex systems into clear documentation and developer-friendly workflows, enabling teams to deploy locally and reliably. He has a track record of refactoring legacy Java services, automating safety checks around Terraform usage, and building ArgoCD/helm integrations that preserve mono-repo workflows. Based in Mercer Island, WA, he combines pragmatic engineering with an eye for operational efficiency and measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Naropa University
English