Sean Cohen
Director Of Product Management at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorSean Cohen is a Director of Product Management with 13 years of experience shaping cloud infrastructure strategy for Red Hat’s OpenShift and OpenStack Platform offerings from Boston. He combines hands-on engineering roots—contributing test automation, orchestration features, and deployment templates to key OpenStack projects like Tempest, Heat, and TripleO—with executive product leadership that spans roadmap, pricing, partner ecosystems, and go-to-market. Sean leads and mentors product teams while driving cross-functional delivery with engineering, QA, and OEM partners, and he routinely represents Red Hat externally through analyst briefings and community events. His background in product delivery and solutions architecture across storage, virtualization and private cloud deployments gives him a rare blend of technical credibility and operational program management. Notably, his open-source work includes improving volume and snapshot testing, orchestrator integrations, and automated Ceph deployment flows—practical contributions that inform his product decisions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (34)
test-automation10
api-rest10
puppeteer10
volumes10
python10
puppet10
pacemaker10
test-framework10
heat10
pest10
automation10
openstack10
temper10
mistral10
ceph10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Jul 2014 - Jul 2022
RETIRED, Heat templates for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:609 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on enhancing the automation and reliability of the OpenStack deployment. They implemented and refined the use of Pacemaker for managing critical services, including Keystone, Glance, and Nova, adding constraints, and monitoring. The contributions involved improving the Ceph deployment process, including upgrading Ceph-Mon and Ceph-OSD daemons during deployment, and integrating Ceph with Manila. Additionally, they configured and optimized deployment settings.
openstack
openstack/tempest
Apr 2013 - Jul 2022
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:31 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the `tempest` repository by writing and modifying test cases for OpenStack services, specifically focusing on volume management and snapshot functionalities. Their work included adding new test cases for volume creation from images and volume cloning. The user also addressed bugs related to test cleanup and attribute handling, and improved test structure with setup/teardown methods. Furthermore, the user's commits included refactoring and improvements to the test suite, such as adding attributes for test types and implementing a stress test.
openstacktesting
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