Sean Sweda
Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering at VMware
Berkley, Michigan, United States
Summary
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SeniorSean 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.
21 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
configuration-management10
cloud-foundry10
devops10
yaml8
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
rabbitmq6
redis6
postgresql6
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry-attic/cf-release
Apr 2012 - Mar 2013
Deprecated: Cloud Foundry Release
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits in 10 months
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.
cloud-foundry
seansweda/ibl-bin
Oct 2004 - Mar 2023
Contributions:464 commits, 169 pushes, 1 branch in 18 years 7 months
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