Seth Chisamore Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Stamford, Ct, Us

Stamford, Ct, Us

* Led 4 globally distributed teams responsible for building, delivering and operating Chef Software’s complete portfolio of on-prem and SaaS based software.* Responsible for governance, security, and procurement of Chef Software’s physical and cloud based infrastructure.* Successfully led transition, integration, and expansion of Chef Software’s engineering teams following the company’s acquisition by Progress Software.

* Architected, developed and scaled Chef Software’s package distribution services which now deliver over 400+ TB of binaries on a monthly basis.* Migrated Chef to a queue-based, burstable continuous delivery model which reduced costs while improving overall engineer productivity.* Mentored engineering team on CI/CD and testing best practices.* Founding member of Chef’s platform architecture team.

* Built and led a specialized engineering services team responsible for internal tools, services and release processes.* Led development on Omnibus: Chef's Ruby framework for creating platform-native, full stack installers.* Defined continuous integration and continuous delivery patterns and pipelines used to ship all of Chef Software’s products across a large build/test matrix that includes 9+ operating systems and 8+ machine architectures* Introduced a ChatOps based releases process which empowered individual teams to ship their software on a schedule that delighted their end-users.* Championed and implemented extreme dog food patterns...e.g. we used a lot of Chef software to build and ship Chef’s software

* Implemented Chef Client’s initial Windows support including system bootstrapping via WinRM.* Part of the backend engineering team that ported Chef Server from Ruby to Erlang while scaling to support 100k+ nodes.* Created many of Chef’s early developer tools including the first local development environment for Chef’s full portfolio of on-prem software.* Ported Chef Client to many esoteric platforms including Juniper switches.

Part of highly specialized team of consultants responsible for a combination of technical services, training, sales engineering and evangelism.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Responsible for architecture and implementation of all client infrastructure/hosting.* Pioneered company-wide usage of cloud-based hosting and full server automation/provisioning using Chef and the Opscode Platform.* Successfully transitioned development and system administrations teams to a hybrid DevOps culture and process.Recent project work:* bakerhughes.com - Lead development and architecture for the main customer facing portal (10K+ pages) of the 3rd largest oil services company (40K+ employees). Created a fully redundant n-tier architecture/infrastructure leveraging the Rackspace Cloud and Opscode Chef. Application infrastructure follows “infrastructure as code” best practices and can be rebuilt from scratch in a fully automated way.

* Responsible for lead development and architecture on multiple mission-critical customer facing solutions at the 6th place comScore ranked ad network.* Mentored large development team on Agile, MVC and SOA/WOA best practices * Spearheaded many internal development firsts including a company-wide base CSS framework, multi-module based Maven builds and a loosely coupled Web Oriented Architectures.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

* Responsible for all technical direction of the IBM Interactive Kiosk Software Practice and successfully transitioned the team to a Ruby on Rails based development platform. Spearheaded adoption of multiple distributed kiosk architectures. Developed custom hardware device drivers in multiple languages.* Helped establish IBM Interactive as the Ruby on Rails subject matter experts within the greater IBM development community. Lead development on multiple Rails projects, as well as leading mentoring, education and sales engagements surrounding Agile development.* Core member of the IBM Interactive Technical Leadership Team, which was responsible for shaping a consistent technical strategy, direction, and message across all IBM Interactive practices.* Worked closely with IBM Research in productizing multiple research projects for the greater business marketplace.Example project work:* http://maps.lacounty.gov - GIS (geographic information system) mash-up utilizing data from the Google Maps API and existing legacy systems. The application is a first of it's kind Rails deployment on z/Linux running on IBM zSeries 990 mainframes* http://nmaahc.si.edu - Fully moderated community-based website that utilizes many Web 2.0 mechanisms including user submitted content (photos, audio and text), tagging and favorites.* http://recyclebank.com - Developed a Ruby on Rails powered incentive based recycling kiosk. Seth showed architectural leadership by creating API specifications (and implementations) for both backend XML-RPC services and client-side kiosk device code.* http://eternalegypt.org - Integral member of a specialized IBM team that developed a complex real-time 3D kiosk application. Kiosks deployed worldwide in participating museums and allow visitors to explore ancient Egyptian landmarks in real-time 3D.

* Administered 30 computer Windows NT network. Managed user accounts, network architecture, and web services.* Designed and implemented an MIS Alumni web page and database using Active Server Pages, JavaScript and HTML. * Developed an online auction application using Microsoft SQL Server and Active Server Pages.

* Developed document management applications using Documentum, Active Server Pages and COM objects.* Created a patent capture application for a major pharmaceutical company.