Seth Thomas Email & Phone Number

San Fernando Valley, California, US

Polycount was around when the game industry was budding, building a faithful online community of both professional and amateur game artists since 1998. We host high profile challenges and contest with companies such as Valve, Vigil (RIP), and Riot providing our community opportunities to not only get recognition but also profit from their hard work. You.

Cary, NC, US

As part of the Dedicated Server team I help plan, maintain, and scale the platform that underpins Fortnite.

Englewood, CO, US

As the Director of Engineer Operations I oversaw several projects:- cost control over our legacy AWS estate- consolidation of (expensive) services- building out our next-gen operations platform with managed Kubernetes- release engineering- infrastructure upgrade and overhaul- simplification of alerting, paging, and notification noise- increased uptime

Seattle, WA, US

As a member of the Community Engineering team I bring to bear 6+ years of Chef experience to help increase quality, reducing adoption friction, and make all our tools as delightful as possible. Primary focus is continuing maintainer-ship of the test-kitchen ecosystem and driving up cookbook quality.

Seattle, WA, US

Team moved from Business Development to newly created Product Marketing.- Product Messaging- Demos- Sales EnablementAlso continuing as the active maintainer of test-kitchen and bento, two open source projects critical to the Chef ecosystem.https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchenhttps://github.com/chef/bento/

Seattle, WA, US

- Public Speaking (meetups and conferences)- Serving in a Solutions Architect/Engineer capacity- Delivering training- Demos- Community building- Identifying and educating global partners- Extensive travel- Occasional ability to leverage my Japanese degree

Seattle, WA, US

Working with vendors and partners to make using Chef even more delightful. Specifically I work on integrations which may range from cookbooks to libraries to knife plugins for a variety of different partners such as Cisco, VMware, F5, Citrix, and EMC. Between projects I wear a variety of hats ranging from global evangelism to training to community.

Bellevue, WA, US

As an operations engineer who loved Riak, this was a natural role to move into. I continued to maintain serveral of the duties I had as an Operations Engineer such as cookbook development, apt/yum repos, and maintenance of RiakCS.net but with challenging new duties such as evaluating customer use cases, tech talks, and training customers. - Spending.

Bellevue, WA, US

Ops for Basho, makers of Riak. Some people might call it DevOps but either way I was responsible for all things that fall under the banner:Operations - building yolo colo, internal infrastructure, client consulting, Ricon (conference), riak chef cookbook, performance testingTechnical Evangelism - presentations, conferences, meetupsOther - Meme Generation.

Austin, TX, US

Build engineer for the Dark Millennium Online (DMO) and Darksiders 2 (DS2) projects. Responsible for continuous integration systems, build hardware, game server deployment, Perforce administration, and anything else that keeps the process moving forward.- Managed cross-team build system (DS2 and DMO)- Managed internal DMO game servers and related.

New York, NY, US

Provided general system administration duties covering everything from laptop repair to VMware vSphere administration. As seems to be a recurring theme I migrated several physical servers to VMs, freeing up valuable rack space.

Austin, TX, US

As a member of the Identity and Access Management team, under the Applications group of ITS, I assist in managing the nearly 5 million identities on record. Currently I am the area lead and administrator for Directory Services which includes a private enterprise directory, public white pages, and related Natural (mainframe based) applications..

San Diego, CA, US

I supported the build system, related hardware and management systems for Star Wars Galaxies, a long runningonline game (MMORPG) comprising over 30 live and test clusters requiring 24/7 availability. I was the last to touchcode before it went live, and the first responder in IRC when something exploded. Development was agile, availability was high, and it.

Austin, TX, US

Served as division's system administrator while being a part-time student. This was the first time I was in an homogeneously Apple environment, with Xserves down to first gen iMacs. Quickly became an OSX expert, having experience with 10.3 onward including the Server offering. Implemented directory services for machine and user management as well as.

Austin, TX, US

The Help Desk services a user base of 80,000+ current and former students, employees, and guests via phone, chat, e-mail and in person. The senior title implies you were not only able to keep sane during fall registration periods, but you could do so while teaching 2 other trainees and juggling a half dozen security audits. This help desk has produced some.

Ba, Japanese, History

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Asian Studies, Japanese