Summary
Sean K is a seasoned distributed systems architect and engineering leader with 14 years of experience designing resilient, scalable infrastructure across cloud, virtual, and physical environments. He favors pragmatic solutions—"simple as possible, complex as necessary"—and scales impact by up-leveling people, processes, and assumptions rather than becoming a single load-bearing individual. Comfortable at both 10,000' architectural views and syscall-level troubleshooting, he has hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Go, Docker, MySQL, Redis, and Linux. Sean’s leadership spans IC, management, and architect roles, and he’s known for stress-testing systems so thoroughly that high-stakes launches (like the Call of Duty incident) proceeded without firefighting. Based in Kirkland, WA, he’s drawn more to building effective teams and reliable outcomes than to any particular technology, and he communicates using the level of abstraction that best helps others understand and act.
14 years of coding experience
Fullerton College