Sebastian Cole
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Ping Identity
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSebastian Cole is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Sydney with 13 years of experience building highly available web infrastructure and automation at companies like Ping Identity, Apptio and Atlassian. He combines deep hands-on skills in DevOps, configuration management (Puppet/Ansible), CI/CD and scripting (PowerShell, Ruby) with a systems-engineering mindset honed through progressive roles from junior admin to tech lead. Sebastian is obsessed with uptime and resilient datacenter design, and he brings practical experience turning legacy ops into repeatable, testable pipelines that accelerate delivery. He thrives on solving complex distributed-systems problems, enjoys graph databases, and has repeatedly driven culture change toward Agile and developer-friendly operations. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic tinkerer who pairs curiosity with humility and a relentless focus on making services simple to operate at scale.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BEng(CompSysEng) & BAppSci(CompSci) Computer Systems Engineering Computer Science, BEng(CompSysEng) & BAppSci(CompSci) Computer Systems Engineering Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (104)
terraform10
k8s10
autoscaling10
graph10
nodejs10
kubernetes-node10
aws10
flexibility10
kubernetes-cluster9
ansible9
python9
vagrantfile9
build-automation9
terraform-module9
ssh9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
preflightsiren/karpenter
May 2023 - Nov 2023
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Contributions:63 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
preflightsiren/chrome-akamai-debug
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
akamaichromeheadersdebugchrome-extension
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