Sean Poynter
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Poynter is a senior software development engineer based in Dallas with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native tooling and Linux-focused solutions. At Amazon he has progressed from Cloud Support Engineer to Senior SDE, leading development of EC2 Rescue for Linux and shaping team standards for testing, CI/CD, and documentation. He blends deep systems-level knowledge (Python, Bash, Linux) with practical AWS operational experience across CodePipeline, CodeBuild, EC2, Lambda, SSM, and CloudWatch to deliver reliable, production-ready services. Previously he ran platform engineering for appliance vendors, managing hardware lifecycles and customer-facing integrations for enterprise customers. Pragmatic and documentation-minded, he often combines coding with building metrics and automation that reduce operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Computer Science, Associate's Degree Computer Science at College of Lake CountyBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
English
Github Skills (41)
python10
gstreamer10
linux10
cost-optimization10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
rescue10
elastic10
music10
amazon10
gtk9
player9
pygobject9
intellij7
clion7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Drudenhaus/aws-ec2rescue-linux
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Rescue for Linux is a python-based tool that allows for the automatic diagnosis of common problems found on EC2 Linux instances.
Contributions:365 pushes, 21 branches, 9 tags in 3 years 1 month
instancespythonec2elasticproblems
awslabs/aws-ec2rescue-linux
Jul 2017 - Jun 2021
Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Rescue for Linux is a python-based tool that allows for the automatic diagnosis of common problems found on EC2 Linux instances.
Contributions:3 releases, 29 reviews, 174 commits in 3 years 11 months
instancespythonec2cost-optimizationelastic
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