Ethan Seither
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Seither is a Member of Technical Staff with 11 years of experience building high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems across data infrastructure, privacy engineering, and identity platforms. Currently on OpenAI’s Applied Identity team, he focuses on designing identity and authentication systems that scale both technically and organizationally. Previously a founding privacy engineer at Discord and a data infrastructure lead processing tens of billions of daily events, he blends deep operational experience with a strong privacy-first mindset. His background includes streaming analytics at Arista, end-to-end data pipelines, and machine learning-adjacent research from UCSC, reflecting a habit of turning complex telemetry and data problems into reliable production services. Known for being persistently frustrated by computers in the best way, he pairs pragmatic engineering with curiosity about the logical limits of systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Baskin Engineering at UCSCComputer Science, Computer Science at Folsom Lake College
English, French
Github Skills (9)
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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