Sean Newcomb is currently a Site Reliability Engineer at Lean Techniques where he works with a large agriculture company to ensure mission critical platform services are available, scalable, reliable, and secure. Before Sean got interested in site reliability and agriculture he focused on building out world scale datacenters for Facebook (META) and Google (Alphabet) that hosted everything from Instagram, Messenger to Youtube and Waymo. Sean has participated in dsmHack since 2019 and loves to engage with local non-profits and leaders to enable them to be successful. Sean wanted to extend his capacity by joining the board in 2022 to have a more direct impact on the organization. In Sean's free time he enjoys working out at the gym, listening to podcasts about geo-political issues, the state of technology and ai, and of course aliens! Sean has grown up in central Iowa attending North High, Central Campus, and Des Moines Area Community College.