Sean is a top-tier professional, capable of bringing both passion and deep technical expertise to any team. Working at the intersection of government and technology is challenging, given that both worlds too often clash, so it requires a unique skill set to navigate this terrain. Over the course of Sean's 'tour of duty' with FAI, he excelled working on technical API and data projects, as well as advising policy makers on arcane legislative initiatives in terms that they could understand. I trust Sean to deliver on complex projects from strategy to implementation and every cycle in between. Sean is a team player and always treats his peers, customers or any other stakeholder with respect. It was a pleasure working with Sean and I would not hesitate to hire him again!

Garrett Johnson

Co-Founder/COO at Hydra Host & Co-Founder/Chairman at Foundation for American Innovation

I had the pleasure of working closely with Sean as his supervisor. Sean has a wealth of expertise in Cloud Services and Architecture and his standout strength is his proficiency in API management and Networking. He has deep understanding of best practices in agile methodology, and he consistently apply this knowledge to drive successful initiatives. What truly sets Sean apart is his ability to establish and maintain strong rapport with customers. His interpersonal skills and client-centric approach have played a pivotal role in ensuring customer satisfaction and fostering long-lasting relationships. He has a unique talent for parsing complex requirements and formulating effective strategies to implement project objectives. Throughout our collaboration, Sean consistently demonstrated a high level of professionalism, leadership, and technical acumen. He takes initiative, communicate effectively, and is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure the success of the team and the projects he lead. I have no doubt that Sean would be a tremendous asset to any organization looking for a seasoned professional with a proven track record in development management, cloud services, and agile methodologies.

Krishnan Muthuswamy

Director of Cloud Engineering at GE Digital

I appreciated Sean’s passion for developing and promoting innovative ideas to bring people and processes together. This ability to foster collaboration, along with a solid technical understanding, made him a valuable leader within the organization. I also admired his deliberate attention to growth and mentorship as someone who reported to him. I’m looking forward to seeing where his ambition and leadership will take him and the organizations that join him.

Douglas Parkes

IT Project Manager III at Walmart

I have known Sean for 2-3yrs and I am glad that we had the opportunity to work together on Akanda. Sean has a number of strengths; here are just a few that come to mind: Sean is a great leader and manager. Sean is well known in the Openstack community worldwide for his contributions, leadership and expertise. With limited resources at a startup, it can be challenging to move the ball. Sean was effective at driving the team to work through challenges, improve and make things happen. He was also great at prioritizing issues, defining solutions and driving the dev team to deliver results. Sean has great technical depth. As the head of business development, I partnered closely with Sean for technical backup on customer calls. Whether we were having an internal strategic discussion or we were pitching a prospect, Sean knew Openstack and Akanda’s platform in and out and could quickly provide clarity. Sean is trusting, friendly, constructive and just a great guy to work with. As a virtual team with everyone working remotely,, communication was key. Sean and I worked closely together, talking frequently across the day. I always knew that I could bring up any product or team issue/opportunity and we would work quickly together to define a practical resolution. Sean has exceptional range. He is not only talented across technical disciplines, but he also has great breadth in business disciplines i.e. he understands evangelism and community development, he’s great at building the kind of productive relationships, business development and partnerships, go-to-market strategies and more. Most technical leaders don’t think as holistically about how to launch a product and drive growth as Sean does. Sean was a pleasure to work with and I hope to have another opportunity to collaborate with him in the future. Any organization would be lucky to have him.

Josh Sanderson

Head of Sales at Akanda

Sean has been an incredible board member and representative for the OpenStack community. He's collaborative, always open to feedback and new ideas, and willing to roll up his sleeves to get the job done. He's made a huge impact on the community, from adding structure to our global user group and ambassador program to spearheading the product management working group. I'm always happy to work with Sean and would love to see him return to the board in the future!

Lauren Sell

VP Marketing at OpenStack Foundation

Sean is very motivated and self-driven individual and required very little direction. Sean is reliable and very professional in meeting delivery dates with high quality output. Sean is very knowledgable in the entire IT technology stack and was instrumental in helping us document the technology and the processes associated with the Architecture Group.

Munther Megdadi

Head Global Architecture at Roche Pharmaceuticals

Sean has my strong recommendation. He gets things done and done well. He develops effective relationships, and has deep technical acumen. Sean is a huge asset to Yahoo! and has figured out how to leverage cross organizational teams and external organizations to create benefit for everyone he works with. He is really impressive, since he is easy to work with, fun, and has a humble streak while at the same time has ideas that are highly sophisticated and create revolutionary change to a very complex business environment.

Gil Yehuda

Head of Open Source Engineering and Technology at the World Bank

Sean's greatest strength is his ability to anticipate and act proactively. He and I participated in a couple of complicated cross-organizational projects, and while we were sorting out the 'who', 'what' and 'when, Sean was already making great progress on the 'how' - particularly in getting the necessary resources. Both projects involved collaboration with non-Yahoo partners, and Sean has a real talent for finding volunteers!

Geoff Arnold

Chief Technology Officer at Lacuna Technologies

Sean is an Engineer at heart and loves technology. He is detail-oriented and systemetic in his approach to work. He is process-oriented and has great organization and documentation skills. He He contributed to engineering architecture, established the Wiki and contributed directly to setting up the lab. He is a fun person to have on the team!

Salil Awasthi

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Truss Health

Sean is a very smart person and absolutely dedicated to any tasks/projects he involved. Sean is a very respectable technically capable individual. Sean got the respects among friends and colleagues during and after the time we were working together at EDS. Sean is very energetic and a very 'go-getter' person.

Peter Nguyen

Senior Security Engineer at Adobe

Sean was excellent in troubleshooting problems at SLAC, as well looking at the bigger picture. He was a very intelligent, hardworking collegue with big ideas. He would be a great asset to any company.

Jean-Raymond Pierre

Senior Enterprise Architect at Stanford Health Care

I have worked with Sean Roberts as a colleague and friend. He originally came to the lab as a consultant to lead the migration from NT 4.0 to XP and to architect our Active Directory infrastructure. We were so impressed with his work that we persuaded him to stay as a member of the Windows infrastructure team. He has been a real asset to our organization and a pleasure to work with.

Arla LeCount

Human Resources Manager at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory