Sean Ankenbruck

Hi, I'm Sean 👋

A software engineer with almost a decade of experience designing, building, and implementing cloud-native systems. I am passionate about driving technical innovation within organizations by mentoring engineering teams, establishing robust software development standards and building solutions to meet your most critical business needs. This blog is a hobby project, and I hope that it can be a resource for you.

Technical Skills

Distributed System Design
Observability Architecture
Containerized Applications
Infrastructure as Code
Container Orchestration
CI/CD Pipeline Integration
Cloud-Native Development

Featured Projects

Personal Blog Website

This web application was entirely built from scratch using Go, CSS, and HTML. The application is fully instrumented with OpenTelemetry and telemetry data is streamed to a managed observability platform.

Go • CSS • HTML • OpenTelemetry

Developing on Raspberri Pi with Kubernetes

This project demonstrates how to setup a kubernetes cluster running 3 nodes on Raspberry Pi from my home network. The intent is to provide a low-cost development environment for building and testing cloud-native applications locally.

Kubernetes • Docker • Linux • Raspberry Pi

AI-Powered Observability Platform

The intent of this project is to build a robust observability solution that leverages AI tools to translate natural language into functional queries of telemetry data.

Go • React • Claude • Prometheus

Resume Highlights

  • September 2024 - Present

    Senior Software Engineer - Cariad, Inc.

    Designed and built a centralized observability platform in order to consolidate and modernize Cariad's current observability offerings. The platform ingests, processes, and visualizes telemetry data from various sources across multiple cloud environments and is available to developer teams in multiple regions around the globe. The emphasis of this project was to reduce the costs associated with operating an observability system at scale and decrease the reliance on external vendors.

  • August 2022 - September 2024

    Senior Cloud Solution Engineer, Cariad, Inc.

    Lead the design and development of customer-facing applications and processes, providing technical solutions to optimize workflows and bridge operational gaps. Built and deployed distributed software solutions including microservices, APIs, and web applications on Azure cloud using various technologies and programming languages.

  • January 2022 - August 2022

    Senior Solutions Engineer, Groundspeed Analytics.

    Partnered with cross-functional teams to build and continuously improve the overall product offering for our customers. Designed and implemented solutions that allowed customers to interface directly with our products.

  • May 2017 - December 2021

    Senior Solutions Architect, Zencos Consulting LLC.

    Developed solutions for customers, incorporating cloud infrastructure, data analytics tools, ETL processes, data visualizations, APIs, automated workflows, and web applications. Worked with the internal cloud team to continuously improve our existing cloud infrastructure and implement cloud computing best practices.

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