Career Profile

I am an Automation Specialist, I enjoy the problem solving and sleuthing of figuring out how to get the pieces of automation working together to fufill a goal. Ansible helps me do that.

Experiences

Ansible Automation Consultant

Jan 2017 - Present
Red Hat, Remote

Ansible Automation Consulting supporting multiple Fortune 500 customers with their automation needs. Here are a few of the tools and technology that I worked with creating automation.

  • Ansible Automation Platform
    • Ansible
    • Ansible-lint
    • Ansible-Navigator
    • Ansible-builder
    • Custom Collections
    • Custom Modules
    • Controller/Tower
    • Private Automation Hub
  • Python
  • GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI/CD
  • Python
  • RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu

Technical Operator

2013 - 2017
Purdue University - ITAP Operations - Lafayette, IN

Classroom Administrator helping to maintain over 500 classrooms and 20 Labs across campus.

  • Supporting Classroom technology support calls and troubleshooting any issues after hours.
  • Monitor Datacenters and systems in a NOC
  • Direct support for any issues that arose in labs and classrooms including repair and diagnosis of audio and project issues.

Projects

Here are some Ansible Collections and Open Source Projects that I help contribute to/or maintain.

Controller Configuration - AAP/AWX configuration as code standarization collection
Automation Hub Configuration - PAH/GalaxyNG configuration as code standarization collection
Automation Automation Platform utilities - AAP automation deployment collection
Execution Environment utilities - Automating building and publishing of EEs

Publications & Presentations

Here are some of the Talks, Blogs, and Books that I have worked on.

  • Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform - 300 Page Book
  • Sean Sullivan
    Packt Publishing September 202
  • Ansible Workshop - Configuration as Code for Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Sean Sullivan and David Danielsson
    Ansible Fest 2022, Red Hat Summit 2023
  • Ansible data manipulation with a Filter
  • Sean Sullivan
    Ansible Blog August 2023
  • Best practices for building EEs
  • Sean Sullivan and Anshul Behl
    Ansible Fest 2022
  • Automation controller workflow deployment as code
  • Sean Sullivan
    Ansible Blog November 2021

    Skills & Proficiency

    Problem solving

    Ansible

    Yaml

    Python

    Containers

    Kubernetes