Sean Lingren
Senior Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Lingren is a Senior Principal Engineer with 11 years building reliable, cloud-native infrastructure and developer experience platforms, currently at Atlassian following Loom's acquisition. He has deep SRE and infrastructure leadership experience from roles at Loom, GitHub, and Avant, scaling systems and teams while driving security and developer productivity. Sean is a hands-on engineer who contributes to open-source tooling—his work on kube-monkey shows practical chaos engineering expertise and attention to subtle runtime issues like timezone-related errors. Trained in cognitive science at UC Berkeley, he brings a user-centered approach to complex distributed systems and operational tooling. Based in Los Angeles, he combines pragmatic code-level fixes with long-term architectural thinking, often stepping into core maintenance and cross-team integration work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
English
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
error-handling10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
data-integration9
integrations9
system-integration9
integrate9
configuration-management8
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
asobti/kube-monkey
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sean made several code modifications focused on error handling and improving the codebase. They introduced a new error type related to timezones, demonstrating an understanding of potential runtime issues. They also integrated changes from the master branch, which involved modifications in victim and config, and removed git merge text, implying a role in maintaining and merging code contributions. The user appears to be involved in core development and maintenance tasks.
chaosnetflixclustersnetflix-chaos-monkeymonkey
loomhq/datadog-exporter
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
export and backup datadog resource definitions locally
Contributions:111 reviews, 123 PRs, 130 pushes in 2 years 3 months
exportlocallydatadog-dashboarddefinitionsdashboard
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