Summary
Sean Mckellips is a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of infrastructure and systems experience, currently driving reliability at Adobe. He specializes in Infrastructure as Code, having evolved from scripting maintenance tasks to implementing scalable AWS, VMware and Chef-based automation for Java/Tomcat web services. Sean has hands-on experience migrating CentOS VMware environments to cloud-native architectures while improving documentation and operational auditability. His career spans senior systems roles at RealNetworks and grocers’ IT organizations, giving him a practical focus on robust, production-ready operations. Based in Kent, Washington, he brings a scientist’s attention to detail—rooted in a UCLA background in physiological science and biochemistry—to infrastructure design and troubleshooting.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles