I’m a Director of Engineering focused on building reliable platforms, enabling high-trust engineering teams, and stewarding long-lived systems that serve real users at scale.

Alongside my professional work, I’ve spent more than a decade contributing to and leading open-source projects — most notably as a long-time maintainer and Technical Lead within the Xubuntu project and the broader Ubuntu ecosystem.

My current focus spans both commercial and open-source environments:

• Engineering leadership & platform stewardship
  Scaling teams, modernizing delivery practices, and balancing near-term execution with long-term technical health.

• Linux platform & distribution engineering
  Release engineering, dependency curation, documentation, and governance within Xubuntu.

• Cloud-native & modern systems
  Containerized workloads, CI/CD, atomic/immutable operating systems, and operational reliability.

• Developer experience & enablement
  Improving tooling, documentation, and workflows so teams can do their best work.

Open source has been a constant through my career — not just as code, but as community, mentorship, and stewardship.

My contributions have included:

• Long-term maintenance of widely used end-user software
• Release and platform ownership within Xubuntu
• Mentoring contributors and maintainers
• Helping projects evolve sustainably as they grow

While my role today is more focused on leadership and enablement than day-to-day coding, open source remains a core part of how I think about software and teams.

• Website: seand.xyz
• Mastodon: floss.social/@bluesabre
• LinkedIn: Sean Davis

GitHub Sponsors help support my ongoing open-source maintenance and community leadership work. Thank you to everyone who contributes — financially or otherwise.