Sean Collins
Kubernetes OpenShift OpenStack Engineer at Comcast
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSean Collins is a Kubernetes, OpenShift and OpenStack engineer with 15 years of experience designing, automating, and hardening cloud infrastructure for enterprises like Comcast, IBM, and Mirantis. He combines hands-on platform engineering—building CI/CD pipelines, upgrade orchestration tools, and container publication systems—with deep upstream open source contributions to projects such as Neutron, DevStack, Tempest and Bottle. Known for improving IPv6 support, test automation, and upgrade workflows, he blends systems-level networking expertise with practical DevOps tooling (Helm, Ansible, Concourse/Drone, Spinnaker). Based in Philadelphia, he’s an outspoken open source advocate who also contributes pragmatic build and packaging improvements (e.g., Vagrant/FreeBSD optimizations), showing a knack for squeezing complexity out of real-world deployments.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Science and Technology at Temple University
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Github Skills (43)
git10
restructuredtext10
python10
sphinx10
freebsd10
testing10
net10
tfvc10
rs10
bottle10
networking10
pest10
automation10
openstack10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
git-tfs/git-tfs
Dec 2011 - Feb 2014
A Git/TFS bridge, similar to git-svn
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:110 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the Git-TFS bridge project by addressing deprecation warnings and fixing bugs related to the TFS integration. They made changes to the code to use updated API methods and fixed an issue related to the default comment flag in the checkin tool. Furthermore, the user added and modified code related to the association of work items during the rcheckin operation.
tfsversion-controlsimilarbridgelibgit2sharp
openstack/openstack-manuals
Jan 2013 - Aug 2016
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:19 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sean's contributions primarily focused on updating and enhancing the documentation for the OpenStack manuals repository. They added links to developer documentation for various OpenStack projects and incorporated DevStack into the list of developer resources. Furthermore, the user improved the provider networking scenario documentation and corrected formatting and hyperlink markup within the networking guide. Additionally, they added a note about the `accept_ra` sysctl value and corrected an inconsistency in region naming.
manualsopendevopenstack
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