Sean Mcavoy
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Windscribe
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Mcavoy is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, operating, and automating large-scale infrastructure across VMware, OpenStack, GCP, and AWS. He has deep expertise in global distributed networks, BGP, and large-scale data collection—having run RIPE RIS and built Hadoop/HBase clusters to process massive measurement datasets. Sean blends hands-on automation (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Python) with pragmatic monitoring and observability practices (Nagios, Sensu, Grafana, Graphite), and has a track record of reducing cost and improving reliability through cloud migrations and IaC. He has led operational projects end-to-end, from second data centre deployments and anycast DNS operations to onboarding teams on cloud tooling. Currently driving reliability at Windscribe after senior roles at DigiCert and others, he is as comfortable tuning HBase performance as he is architecting resilient global networks. Peers describe him as a problem-solver who pairs systems-level thinking with practical tooling to keep services running at scale.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Management Training, Management Training at Learning Tree International
Github Skills (96)
linux-distribution10
ruby10
ubuntu10
iso10
alpine-linux10
debian10
linux10
debian-linux10
u-boot10
x8610
lxc10
go10
macos10
package-manager10
lxd10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
smcavoy/lxd
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
containerslinuxdockervirtual-machine
smcavoy/build
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Armbian build tools
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
armbiandebian-linuxbitbakedebianbuild-tools
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