About

My name is Sean Bedford and I’m a technologist based in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

This blog is about 15 years old and has been mostly quiet. I’m rebuilding it with a clearer purpose — to go deeper on the technology I work with and care about, and document the learning along the way.

Technology

I started as a developer, working in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem from version 1.0, building web and Windows applications across the full stack — which meant you had to understand what was happening at every layer, not just the framework you were working in. That foundation has mattered more than anything else since.

From there I moved across the broader Microsoft ecosystem — SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Active Directory, Azure — designing and implementing solutions across identity, collaboration, and business applications. Enough variety to develop a real appreciation for how enterprise environments actually fit together.

At Google Cloud I got hands-on with public cloud architecture at scale — compute, networking and storage at scale and the early days of the AI movement. That’s where my thinking about cloud-native design patterns matured, and where I started to properly understand the gap between what cloud promises and what most organisations are actually ready to adopt.

HashiCorp deepened the infrastructure layer considerably. Terraform, Vault, and the wider platform covering infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and zero-trust networking. The DevSecOps space forces you to think about the full lifecycle — provisioning, security, compliance, drift — and how all of it connects.

My current interest is AI, and specifically the infrastructure and operational foundations that determine whether organisations actually get value from it. I watched the cloud adoption cycle play out — the rush to deploy before the foundations were solid, and the cost problems that followed. AI is heading down the same path for a lot of organisations. That’s the lens I’m bringing to it here.

Employment

Currently Director of Customer Lifecycle Management at HashiCorp (now part of IBM), working across Asia Pacific and Japan. Before that, Partner Engineering and Professional Services at HashiCorp, and before that building the Partner Engineering function at Google Cloud across Australia and New Zealand.

Personal

I’m from Maroubra in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Happily married to Megan with two teenage daughters, Emily and Lucy. I play a lot of golf. Get to the beach when I can. South Sydney Rabbitohs fan.