Sean Huber
Staff DevOps Engineer at LendingHome
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorSean Huber is a Staff DevOps Engineer in San Francisco with 17 years of hands-on experience spanning frontend, backend, DevOps, and systems/database administration. He architects and operates cloud infrastructure on AWS (CloudFormation, encryption, networking) while writing production code in Ruby/Rails, Go, PHP, and JavaScript/TypeScript. At LendingHome he progressed from Senior to Staff DevOps, bringing pragmatic reliability and automation to scale-critical systems. Sean contributes to open-source Ruby tooling—improving documentation, tests, and adapters for widely used libraries like attr_encrypted—and has maintained practical, well-tested utilities such as a PHP curl wrapper. He pairs deep operational expertise (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, Nginx/Apache) with developer ergonomics (vim, tmux), making him effective across the full stack and lifecycle. Colleagues rely on him for clear, well-documented solutions that reduce blast radius while keeping teams productive.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
ruby10
php10
activerecord10
data-mapper10
curl10
documentation10
apidoc9
sequel9
api9
software-design8
redirect6
encryption6
ruby-on-rails6
recursion6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shuber/curl
Dec 2008 - Sep 2009
A basic CURL wrapper for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on improving the functionality and structure of the PHP-based CURL wrapper. Their contributions included refactoring code, adding documentation, and correcting the placement of key CURL options. They also addressed potential issues by ensuring POST fields are set only when specified and by updating the cookie file handling. These changes enhance the library's usability and maintainability.
phpcurl
attr-encrypted/attr_encrypted
Jan 2009 - Mar 2011
Generates attr_accessors that encrypt and decrypt attributes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 19 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the `attr_encrypted/attr_encrypted` repository by adding documentation and comments to the code. Their changes focused on clarifying the logic related to ActiveRecord, DataMapper, and Sequel adapters. Furthermore, they updated existing tests and added new tests to improve the coverage of the attr_encrypted functionality, and updated the readme. The user's work ensures the library is well-documented and tested across supported ORM.
encryptionencryptdecryptaccessors
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