Ethan Seither
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Seither is a software engineer who designs high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems with a privacy-forward approach to data. As a founding member of Discord’s privacy engineering team, he built systems that protected data while processing tens of billions of events daily on the data infrastructure side. He currently works on OpenAI’s Applied Identity team, tackling identity and authentication systems that scale both technically and organizationally. Based in Oakland, CA, he combines hands-on engineering with a summa cum laude BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. His career spans Arista Networks, Discord, and OpenAI, driven by a relentless focus on turning complex requirements into reliable, auditable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Folsom Lake CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.97, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.97, Summa Cum Laude at University of California, Santa Cruz - Jack Baskin School of Engineering
English, French
Github Skills (10)
web-api7
metadata6
api6
indexer5
dashboard4
browser2
json2
storage2
elasticsearch1
file-browser1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eternalnoob/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
eternalnoob/johnceenamon
Dec 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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