Sean Turner

About Sean Turner

In my previous career in finance operations, I devoted study outside of work to learn Python in order to automate tasks for my department. Thrilled with the results, the only option was to continue learning. In order to pursue that passion, I took a Data Science coding bootcamp. After graduating, I also pursued opportunities as a DevOps Engineer after realizing that there was tool crossover and that the work was creative and interesting. As a result, I landed a job as a DevOps Engineer for an Australian startup in Melbourne, inevitably going remote for visa reasons.As time progressed, my enthusiasm for the field grew, and I continually focused on this willingness to learn. As a result, I now enjoy finding new ways to automate everything, and I am currently pursuing a senior role in which I can operate with empathy, implement MLOps tooling, apply Infrastructure-as-Code and data pipelines, develop cloud-native dev tooling, provide technical leadership for an entire team, design complex distributed systems, coordinate with other teams to deliver those systems, and drive change and best practices within an organization.

Experience

1. Senior Infrastructure Engineer

   KoBold Metals

   Aug 2022 — Present

   Combining AI with Geophysics to identify electric vehicle battery metals in the Earth’s crust.• Globalizing AWS infrastructure to reduce latency for geographically distributed users.• Co-authoring ML framework making Data Science experimentation work repeatable.• Standardizing application deployments with EKS and ArgoCD Gitops to improve speed.• Utilizing IaC everywhere possible to ensure consistency and security.• Mentoring on Terraform and K8s to foster self-sufficiency and enhance productivity.

Education

• University of Michigan

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Financial Modeling
• Microsoft Word
• Financial Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Mysql
• Business Intelligence
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• International Economics
• Bloomberg Terminal
• Dcf Valuation
• Valuation
• Data Mining
• Quantitative Research
• Wacc
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Postgresql
• R
• Javascript
• Modern Portfolio Theory
• Html5
• Sqlite
• Vagrant
• Matplotlib
• Golang
• Pandas
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Python
• Macroeconomics
• Ansible
• Bayesian Statistics
• Statistics
• Tableau
• Business Analysis
• Web Scraping
• Docker
• Terraform
• Financial Economics