Sean Kelly
Senior Director, IT Operations And Reliability
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Kelly is a seasoned IT operations leader with over two decades of hands-on experience and 14 years in progressive leadership roles, currently serving as Senior Director of IT Operations and Reliability at FlightAware. He designs and scales global infrastructure and corporate IT systems, blending deep Unix/virtualization roots with modern reliability practices to keep always-on services humming. Sean has a track record of driving large virtualization, backup, and disaster-recovery initiatives—from university healthcare systems to enterprise-grade flight data operations. Based in Holly Springs, NC, he balances operational rigor by day with enthusiast “nerd” projects by night, reflecting a practical curiosity that fuels continuous improvement. Not obvious from the title: his career began as a student Unix admin, where he developed core campus tooling that foreshadowed his focus on reliable, automated infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Creighton University
English
Github Skills (43)
python10
mqtt10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
garden9
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
ruby8
visual-studio-code-extension8
linux7
homebrew7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smkelly/dotfiles
Feb 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
smkelly/smarthome-config
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:197 commits, 115 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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