Seth Carstens
VP Of Product Engineering at Apex Trader Funding
Cave Creek, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Carstens is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling enterprise web platforms, currently serving as VP of Product Engineering at Apex Trader Funding. He blends hands-on architecture and cloud expertise—especially AWS, autoscaling, security, and edge optimization via Cloudflare—with product-driven delivery across global, latency-sensitive systems. Seth has led large distributed teams and executed enterprise-wide initiatives like a multi-tenant OneCMS, contributor platforms, and robust DevOps pipelines that cut deploy times and increased QA coverage. He is comfortable both in executive roles and in code-level improvements, contributing backend fixes to popular open-source tooling for WordPress plugin update stability. Based in Cave Creek, AZ, he also runs a long-standing nonprofit and maintains a founder’s mindset from running his consulting firm since his teens, which informs his pragmatic, people-first approach to technology and operations.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
HSD Music and Math, HSD Music and Math at Desert Mountain High SchoolBachelors Computer Information Systems, Bachelors Computer Information Systems at W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
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Github Skills (4)
php10
wordpress10
git10
api-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
afragen/git-updater
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
This WP plugin will update GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gitea hosted plugins and themes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to backend improvements for the WordPress plugin. Their work includes fixing JavaScript related to theme rollback functionality, adding actions to delete transients, and enabling/disabling transients related to API calls. Furthermore, they addressed issues with potentially undefined variables in the code, indicating a focus on code quality and error handling. This indicates a focus on improving plugin performance and stability by addressing caching and variable usage.
language-packgiteawordpress-themewordpresshosted
scarstens/pstorm-prefs
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:124 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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