Sean Roberts
Director, Site Reliability Engineering at Cloudera
Tellico Plains, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarSean Roberts is a Director of Site Reliability Engineering with 12 years focused on SRE and a long history in operations dating back to early Linux administration roles. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Rackspace, Hortonworks, and Cloudera, leading SRE teams across EMEA, London and the United States and now running SRE strategy at Cloudera. Sean blends deep hands-on systems experience with people leadership—scaling reliability practices, incident response, and platform engineering across global teams. Based in rural Tennessee yet experienced in international operations, he brings a practical, boots-on-the-ground perspective to large distributed systems and cloud-native reliability. An early-career IT director and long tenure in enterprise infrastructure give him a rare combination of strategic oversight and operational empathy.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
57reputation
17kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
command-line-tool10
big-data10
pagerduty10
cloud-services10
zsh10
amazon10
terraform-provider10
administration10
controller10
python10
bash10
terraform10
ruby10
ssh10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
seanorama/hadoop-stuff
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
seanorama/ssl_manager
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Tool to enable SSL for the services in HDP stack
Contributions:7 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
hdptlsssl
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