Homebrew using Google Analytics always seemed kind of weird to me so in 2022 I rewrote the analytics to use InfluxDB Cloud. This made the analytics easier to query and made a lot of privacy focused users a lot less nervous.
Sean Molenaar
Anything problematic excites me, smooth sailing just sounds boring. This is why I enjoy speeding up processes by finding or creating the right tools for the job.
General Info
- 12th August 1994
- Amsterdam
- sean@seanmolenaar.eu
Employment
2026-Present
Administrate - Product Engineer
At Administrate I have joined the Integrations team to deliver the connections between the customer's systems and the Administrate platform. This way educators can do what they want and we can worry about the data.
2015-2026
Framna - DevOps Engineer
Backend/DevOps engineer using OpenTofu, SaltStack, GitHub Actions and PHP to help lift Framna and the teams I'm part of to the next level.
2017-Present
Homebrew - Maintainer (Volunteer)
Ever since one of the homebrew-php maintainers didn't work fast enough for my taste I've been helping out with the project. First as homebrew-php maintainer and later as homebrew-core maintainer. Serving on the Project Leadership Comittee since February 2020.
2018-Present
Nextcloud - News app Maintainer (Volunteer)
The Nextcloud News app is an RSS/Atom feed aggregator for Nextcloud Hub. It offers a RESTful API for app developers. The source code is available on GitHub
2020-2024
Homebrew - Project Leadership Commitee
I have been serving in the Homebrew PLC since 2020, making sure the membership is happy and can do what they want to do. And after 4 years I have handed over the responsibility to new members.
2012-2014
Sebwite - Full stack developer
PHP and jQuery frontend development with Wordpress
Education
2025-Present
Hashicorp - Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional
When it was time to renew my Terraform Associate certificate, I instead went for the next level: https://www.credly.com/badges/b5dbddc3-8b0f-4e15-b4ab-ef63f9848a0e
2023
Amazon - Amazon Certified Practitioner
I got my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification.
You can verify it here on Credly: https://www.credly.com/badges/24aefad8-f601-44e2-97b3-ddfc2bb1d8c7/public_url
2023
Hashicorp - Terraform Associate
I got my Terraform Associate certification.
You can verify it here on Credly: https://www.credly.com/badges/14ba22de-9552-43f6-b594-4cd9a69e512c/public_url
2018
Contentful - Contentful Certification
Day course to learn everything about contentful
2013-2019
HvA - Software engineering
Studying for a Bachelors of Science in Software engineering
Portfolio
These are the things I worked on that make me proud. Some of it is personal and some of it is paid, but all of it is exciting.
Helped to write a payment app that connected to GateGroups internal systems to place orders in a record time. Despite the app being discontinued I am still incredibly proud of what we achieved as a team.
Starting in 2019, the Move team has been working on a complete rework of their mobile application and I've been glad to be part of it. With bi-monthly local meetings that quickly turned into many virtual meetings, we've truly delivered a result that we can be proud of.
Over the past few years I've made numerous contributions to the nextcloud projects RSS reader app. As an avid user I've implemented security fixes and under-the-hood improvements I thought were important for my continued usage. This is in my eyes how open-source should be done, everyone scratching their own itch.
I worked with the team at Move to set up the CLT website based on our DAP platform. I was personally responsible for bus tracking and mentored a new developer who wrote the parking information API.
Homebrew services have been available for a while on macOS and after the official release of Homebrew on Linux it was only natural that Linux should also be supported. Therefore I extended the system to also support SystemD. This has allowed more and more Linux users to become happy Homebrew users and closed the feature gap with macOS.