Sean Handley
Senior Engineering Manager at Elastic
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Handley is a Senior Engineering Manager with 16 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and machine learning inference services, currently leading the Search Inference team at Elastic. He has a strong track record of moving organisations from monoliths to event-driven microservices, improving reliability and reducing operational costs while managing teams of up to 45 engineers. Sean blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions to the popular Fog Ruby cloud library) with strategic leadership—setting technical direction, hiring and career frameworks, and driving ISO-aligned compliance. He has repeatedly delivered product and cost efficiencies through pragmatic technical design, ML-powered tooling, and platformisation for internal and external users. Based in Stevenage, he pairs deep backend and cloud expertise with a practical “you build it, you run it” culture that accelerates team ownership and operational maturity.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons) Computer Science, BSc (hons) Computer Science at Swansea UniversityDigital MBA, Digital MBA at CTO Academy
German
Github Skills (5)
api-rest10
rest-api10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Apr 2012 - Jan 2016
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 22 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sean contributed significantly to the `fog/fog` repository, focusing on the implementation and modification of a disk model within the `serverlove` compute service. They added and updated disk models and collections, aligning them with the actual API responses. The user also worked on creating and modifying the serverlove compute service requests, including create, update, and destroy server, and start, stop, shutdown, and reset server. Furthermore, the user addressed the proper usage of the Fog API.
cloud-servicesruby
seanhandley/keybase
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
API Client for keybase.io
Contributions:142 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 months
keybaserubycli
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