Sean Kane
Founding Engineer at O'Reilly Media
Camas, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSean Kane is a founding engineer and production operations specialist with 14+ years of experience designing platform-agnostic, business-driven infrastructure for SaaS and edge systems. He combines hands-on SRE practice—leading container fabric and reliability teams at New Relic—with teaching and consulting work through O'Reilly and his own techlabs.sh, reflecting a talent for translating complex operational patterns into teachable, repeatable solutions. Certified as a Kubernetes Administrator and Red Hat Engineer, he focuses on cross-platform integration across Windows, Linux, and macOS while aligning technical choices to business outcomes. Sean’s recent work spans resilient edge connectivity and real-time AI video streaming startups, demonstrating an appetite for cutting-edge, latency-sensitive systems. A published trainer, author, and US patent inventor, he brings both product-facing innovation and deep operational rigor to founding-stage engineering.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Infromation Systems, MS Computer Infromation Systems at University of PhoenixBachelor of Arts Journalism and Public Communications: Broadcasting, Bachelor of Arts Journalism and Public Communications: Broadcasting at University of Alaska Anchorage
English
Stackoverflow
6,457reputation
1.6mreached
15answers
2questions
mysql
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command-line
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
k8s10
marpit10
hashicorp10
vagrant10
concurrent10
package-manager10
terragrunt10
hcl10
hardware10
terraform-provider10
command-line10
hugo-theme10
bash10
docker-desktop10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
spkane/todo-for-terraform
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Todo API server w/ compatible terraform provider
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
spkane/py-paranoia
Dec 2012 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes in 5 years 3 months
bsdpythongamesparanoia
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