Sean Nguyen
Staff DevOps Engineer at BrightAI
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Nguyen is a Staff DevOps Engineer based in Santa Barbara with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure and developer self-service platforms. He has led rapid Kubernetes adoption—growing from zero to 24 EKS clusters across multiple regions—and driven migrations from legacy ECS/CloudFormation to reusable Terraform modules and Spacelift automation. Sean blends platform engineering, SRE practices, and MLOps to reduce operational friction for teams, implementing SLIs/SLOs, incident automation, and model deployment pipelines. He’s a practical software engineer who also writes custom tooling (Golang, Python, Ansible) and Kubernetes Operators when off-the-shelf solutions fall short. Known for enabling secure IoT edge-to-cloud architectures and developer portals (ArgoCD, Backstage), he focuses on measurable reliability and self-service velocity. His background in test automation and CI for embedded systems gives him an uncommon perspective on production-grade observability and reproducible build pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (153)
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solve10
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django-rest-framework10
jenkins-operator10
nodejs10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
snooyen/r53-migrate-go
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
BrightDotAi/terraform-aws-eks-spotinst-ocean-nodepool
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
A terraform module to create an EKS node pool with Spot Ocean by Spot.io
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
oceanpooleksspotnode-pool
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