Portfolio
I'm now the co-organizer of the .NET DC Meetup -- Hoping to bring back some great content soon!
This felt good and is the culmination of a project so I wanted to share it: Over the past 6 months, I went from "having used AWS a few times" to "creating, deploying, and owning the lifecycle for i...
Added GitHub Codespaces support to the NUnit Docs project and blogged about it. • Blog post: https://seankilleen.com/2021/08/how-to-use-github-codespaces-with-your-docfx-project/ • Original PR: htt...
• Talk: Stretching .NET: An Introduction to ElasticSearch • Conference: NoVA Code Camp An introduction to ElasticSearch for .NET developers, with concepts & code.
• Talk: Intro to OSS • Conference: OSS Dev Conf 2017 (Blacksburg, VA) A presentation on the "why" of OSS software with an introduction on how to contribute.
• Talk: Attack-a the Akka! • Group: Microsoft Maniacs
• Talk: Attack-a the Akka! • Group: Tech Talk DC
• Talk: Attack-a the Akka! • Group: Capital Area .NET Users Group
• Talk: TeamCity, OctopusDeploy, and Azure: So Happy Together • Group: DevOps DC Meetup
Gave my first user Group Talk ever! * Talk: Attack-a the Akka! A Brief Intro to Akka .NET * Group: BaltoMSDN Meetup
Launched https://flavorsof.net -- a small explainer web site to disambiguate some of the differences in the .NET ecosystem, and put answers in one place that I've given several times over the years.
Had a pull request merged that contributed support for Giscus comments to the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll Theme. After their release in v4.24.0, I added them to FlavorsOf.NET. I'll be using these on ht...
Renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2021-2022! 🎉
Delivered "Casting a Wider .NET: Working Toward More OSS Maturity in the .NET Community" at .NET Fringe 2017.
Delivered "(Fr)agile: How Agile Falls Apart, and What You Can Do to Hold It All Together" at RevolutionConf 2019
Delivered "Introduction to Microsoft Graph Services" at Microsoft's Insider Dev Tour 2019 in NYC.
Delivered "Serverless is More: An Introduction to Azure Functions" at CodeOnTheBeach 2019
Delivered 4 -- four! -- talks at TechBash 2019: • Full day Workshop: Modernizing to .NET Core • A Brave dotnet-new world: Using and building templates in .NET Core • An Introduction to the Actor Mo...
Delivered "An Introduction to the Actor Model with Akka.NET" at Triangle .NET User Group
Presented "The Joy of Functional Testing with SpecFlow" at the DC Agile Software Testing (DCAST) user group • Event link • Slides • Code • Video
Presented "The Joy of Functional Testing with SpecFlow" at the Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals (CMAP) user group • Event link • Slides • Code
Presented "The Joy of Functional Testing with SpecFlow" at the Hampton Roads .NET User Group (HRNUG) • Event link • Slides • Code • Video
Delivered "An Introduction to the Actor Model with Akka .NET" at the Roanoke Valley .NET User Group (RVNUG) • Meetup Event • Slides • Code
Delivered "An Introduction to the Actor Model with Akka .NET" at the .NET DC User Group. • Meetup Event • Slides • Code
Completely re-vamped and re-launched the NUnit docs at https://docs.nunit.org. Became the lead of the NUnit docs project at https://github.com/nunit/docs Blog post with the announcement: https://se...
Earned a designation as a Microsoft MVP.
Achieved two Certifications via ScrumAlliance: • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) • Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
Achieved two ICAgile certifications and was also certified to teach their content: • Agile Testing (ICP-TST) • Agile Test Automation (ICP-ATA) These courses focus on QA professionals to help them a...
Certification: Registered Education Professional (REP) This allows me, as a trainer, to deliver a CSD Certification course on behalf of ScrumAlliance.
New certification -- Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1)
Spoke at DockerCon 2021. Gave a talk to the "Docker for Super Beginners" Channel called "Learning Docker for Smaller Feedback Loops".
Graduated from Muhlenberg College with a B.A. in American Studies (minors in English and Computer Science).