Sean Sweda is a hands-on technical leader with 21 years of experience building and operating highly available, large-scale cloud and campus services, currently leading a geographically distributed SRE team for VMware’s Cloud Foundry. He’s proven at turning fragile operations into stable, automated platforms—shipping monitoring, deployment automation, and incident processes that reduced downtime and enabled scalable on-call handoffs. Sean combines deep systems expertise (Linux, BOSH, AWS, Puppet, Postgres, mail protocols and high-volume IMAP/SMTP systems) with strong mentorship and team-building skills, quickly advancing from Senior SRE to Team Lead. He has a track record of measurable ROI from consolidation, virtualization and validation tooling, and contributed operational fixes and templates to the Cloud Foundry cf-release repo. Comfortable both coding and managing, he often surfaces subtle operational bugs and opportunities for platform improvement that others miss. Based in Berkley, Michigan, he brings a pragmatic, documentation-first approach that accelerates team ramp-up and reliable production delivery.
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the Cloud Foundry release. Their work involved modifying rsyslogd configurations to support relaying logs, including custom formatting and hostname settings. Additionally, they made changes to various job templates, such as those for cloud controller, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Redis, often incorporating configuration updates and merging code branches. This indicates a focus on maintaining and adapting the deployment and operational aspects of the system.
Contributions:464 commits, 163 pushes, 1 branch in 18 years 7 months
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Sean Sweda - Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering at VMware