Marc Seeger
Production Engineer at Meta
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarMarc Seeger is a staff Production Engineer with 17 years of experience building and hardening large-scale distributed systems, currently focused on AI infrastructure at Meta. He thrives on improving existing systems—making them faster, more resilient, better monitored, and easier to maintain—while coding primarily in Python, Rust, and Go (with a soft spot for Ruby). His background spans low-level provisioning, CI/CD, macOS integration, and hardware-software co-design, and he has practical expertise across networking protocols and Linux internals. At Meta he has also shaped talent pipelines as an active interviewer (360+ interviews by 2022) and internship program lead. Open-source contributions to high-profile Meta repos show his aptitude for production automation and macOS compatibility work. Colocated in Cary, NC, he pairs operational rigor with a hacker’s curiosity for diverse stacks and edge-case system behavior.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
configuration-management10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
grub10
system-administration10
chef-solo10
macos10
automations10
linux8
xml6
logging6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
sinatra6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/chef-cookbooks
Nov 2016 - Jun 2022
Open source chef cookbooks.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `chef-cookbooks` repository, which is a collection of Chef cookbooks. Their contributions involved replacing deprecated functions, improving systemd configurations, and addressing issues related to grub configurations, highlighting their understanding of system configuration and automation. They also contributed to a more robust build process. The user's work demonstrated a strong focus on system administration tasks and maintaining the operational stability of the infrastructure managed by the Chef cookbooks.
chef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchefcookbooks
facebook/IT-CPE
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Meta's Client Platform Engineering tools. Some of the tools we have written to help manage our fleet of client systems.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Marc focused on enhancing the project's compatibility with macOS, specifically addressing changes needed for macOS Big Sur and subsequent versions. Their contributions involved modifying Chef cookbooks to ensure correct file paths and user group configurations, adapting code to accommodate the read-only file system in Big Sur. Additionally, the user added helper methods to identify different macOS versions (10, 11, 12, and 13) for conditional logic within the configuration management system. They also updated system tools related to hardware monitoring.
metaengineeringfleetplatform-engineeringtools-engineering
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