Sean Knox
Cloud Engineering at Zipline
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Knox is a cloud engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-performance, human-centered engineering cultures across startups and large tech companies. Based in San Francisco, he has led platform, security, QA, and IT teams and driven product delivery at Microsoft (notably helping launch AKS), MURAL, and OpenPhone. Sean combines hands-on platform engineering and DevOps expertise—evidenced by CI/CD and cross-platform build contributions to Azure/acs-engine—with a track record of modernizing orgs, scaling global teams, and shipping new core product features. He has deep experience in regulated and healthcare domains, designing HIPAA-capable systems on AWS and introducing lean, rapid development practices. Colleagues rely on him to balance technical tradeoffs with business priorities while cultivating psychological safety and inclusive teams. Pragmatic and people-first, he focuses on solving real human problems rather than optimizing for tooling alone.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Columbia University
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
bash10
docker10
circleci10
makefile10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
go9
azure8
windows8
microsoft-azure8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/acs-engine
May 2017 - Oct 2018
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Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 56 commits, 169 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sean's commits primarily focus on modifications to the CI/CD pipeline and build processes for the `acs-engine` repository. Their contributions include improvements to the build system with the introduction of a `make coverage` command, the building of Linux, Mac, and Windows binaries, and the automation of Kubernetes on Windows builds. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the CircleCI configuration to automate tests and manage the build and release process.
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seanknox/homebrew-brewfile
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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