Seth Eliot
Principal Resilience Architect at Arpio
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Eliot is a Principal Resilience Architect based in Seattle with 7 years focused on cloud resilience and a 20+-year engineering career driving reliability at Amazon, AWS, and Microsoft. He helps customers design, implement, and troubleshoot resilient cloud architectures, blending hands-on DevOps and backend work (notably contributions to awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs) with product and go-to-market strategy. At AWS he led global reliability efforts, co-founded resilience communities, and co-authored influential disaster recovery guidance and resilience models used broadly across the organization. Known as a sought-after speaker and content creator, he has presented at re:Invent and authored widely-read resilience content while helping launch Amazon Resilience Hub. Comfortable moving between code, architecture, and customer-facing advocacy, he combines deep technical rigor with an ability to scale expert practices across teams.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Material Science and Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Material Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (21)
ec10
rds10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
amazon-ec210
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
devops10
s3-bucket10
cicd9
resiliency9
amazon-aurora6
nodejs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:67 reviews, 349 commits, 192 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on modifying and deploying Python-based applications within the AWS environment. Their contributions included changes to application deployment scripts, particularly for EC2, RDS, and S3, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure and automation. The commits also show involvement in modifying database configurations, adding health check endpoints for load balancers, and ensuring application resilience. The user's work is centered around building, maintaining, and improving the applications within the reliability and performance aspects of this well-architected lab.
hands-onsecurityresiliencywell-architectedreliability-engineering
setheliot/xyz_infra_poc
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Terraform scripts for AWS infrastructure
Contributions:68 PRs, 71 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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