Sean Malloy
Senior Technical Account Manager at Red Hat
Port Washington, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Malloy is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Red Hat with over 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating Linux and cloud-native systems. He progressed from Unix/AIX administration and mission-critical financial systems to senior engineering and platform roles at Kohl’s, bringing deep operational knowledge and a pragmatic engineering mindset. Sean contributes to prominent open-source projects like the Kubernetes descheduler and HashiCorp Packer, adding production-focused features such as a PodLifeTime eviction strategy and rigorous provisioner tests. He blends DevOps, backend development, and test automation to improve observability and reliability across distributed systems. Based in Port Washington, Wisconsin, he pairs technical depth with customer-facing account leadership, translating complex technical issues into actionable outcomes. An atypical combination of music study and computer science hints at a creative problem-solving approach behind his methodical engineering.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Music, Music and Computer Science, Music, Music and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeCatholic Memorial High School
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
puppeteer10
puppet10
testing10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
devops9
vagrant9
unit-test8
e2e8
gcp8
google-cloud-platform8
e2e-testing8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/descheduler
Jun 2019 - May 2022
Descheduler for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 106 commits, 96 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sean contributed to the core functionality of the descheduler, adding features like creating Kubernetes events upon pod eviction. They implemented a new PodLifeTime strategy for evicting pods based on their age. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and configuration files to support Go upgrades and integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem. They also enhanced logging for improved monitoring and troubleshooting of pod evictions.
golangkubernetesk8s-sig-scheduling
hashicorp/packer
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 commits, 14 PRs, 45 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on enhancing the testing capabilities and improving the functionality of the `packer` project's Puppet provisioners. This involved adding multiple unit tests, specifically targeting the Puppet-server and Puppet-masterless provisioners, to cover various configuration options like staging directories, execution commands, and facter facts. Furthermore, the user added new features by implementing tests for the new Vagrant Google post-processor, and fixing a link on the website. The commits also demonstrate work related to setting up and testing a new post processor.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
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