Seth Back
Engineering Manager, Control Plane at Delve
Spokane, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Back is an engineering manager and control plane specialist with 11 years of software and infrastructure experience, currently leading Control Plane engineering at Synadia after a promotion from senior engineer. He blends hands-on distributed systems and cloud infrastructure expertise with entrepreneurial experience as the founder of Delve, a startup focused on reimagining city tours. Seth has a strong leadership track record across startups and consultancies—including CTO and president roles—helping teams reduce complexity and ship resilient systems. His background is unusually interdisciplinary, combining deep technical practice with advanced legal and humanities studies from institutions such as Harvard, Oxford, and Edinburgh. Based in Spokane, Washington, he is comfortable moving between strategic CTO-level decisions and low-level operational engineering. Colleagues would note his knack for turning complex infrastructure problems into pragmatic, cost-effective solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
LL.M. Intellectual Property, LL.M. Intellectual Property at The University of EdinburghLaw Philosophy, Law Philosophy at University of OxfordJD Law, JD Law at Oak Brook College of LawMA Church History, MA Church History at Magdalen CollegeAB History Economics, AB History Economics at Harvard University
Github Skills (50)
messaging10
cloud-computing10
jetstream10
command-line-interface10
message-queue10
nats-server10
golang10
message-bus10
messaging-system9
monitoring9
native-messaging9
distributed-systems9
sdk9
go9
cli9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HexlyOSS/hashi-k8s
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Build k8s deployment/secrets yaml from consul and vault
Contributions:31 releases, 54 PRs, 44 pushes in 8 months
golanghashicorp-vaultdeploymentk8s-deploymentvault
sethjback/gobl
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 24 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 4 months
golangbackup-solutionbackup
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