Sean Gallavan
Founder at FinOps Experts
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Gallavan is a founder and infrastructure-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performing SRE/DevOps teams and architecting resilient, cost-efficient cloud platforms. He has driven multi-million dollar AWS savings through Kubernetes autoscaling, spot instances, rightsizing, and tailored FinOps practices, and delivered enterprise-grade reliability (99.99% uptime) while leading SOC2 and SecOps initiatives. Hands-on at heart, Sean enjoys tuning databases and queries, rewrote critical algorithms to eliminate recurring costs, and treats optimizing his company’s cloud bill as a personal challenge. He builds mostly senior, staff-level teams that tackle the company’s hardest problems and also trains organizations in FinOps to bridge finance and engineering. Based in San Francisco and shaped by roles from startups to scale-ups, he balances technical depth with a study of workplace happiness—making engineering culture a measurable priority alongside operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (39)
continuous-deployment10
docker10
api-client10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
api10
pipeline10
devops10
kubernetes9
secrets9
argo9
hashicorp9
kustomize9
cd9
ksonnet9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
seangallavan/node-vault
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Client for HashiCorp's Vault
Contributions:18 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
hashicorpvault
seangallavan/job-search
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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