Seth Etter
Staff Backend Engineer at Zapier
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Etter is a Staff Backend Engineer with 13 years of experience building and evolving scalable web platforms, currently driving backend architecture at Zapier from Wichita, Kansas. He has a strong Rails/RDBMS background demonstrated by contributions to civic open-source projects like Madison, where he focused on database migrations, API evolution, and removing deprecated user-interaction logic. Across senior engineering and managing roles at Ad Hoc and OpenGov Foundation, Seth has led core backend work, mentored teams, and shipped production-ready services. His early career as an instructor and freelance web developer gives him a rare blend of hands-on implementation, curriculum-level teaching, and product-minded engineering. He maintains a concise personal site (sethetter.com) and favors pragmatic refactors that simplify schemas and APIs while preserving user-facing functionality.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
A.A.S., Web Development, A.A.S., Web Development at Butler County Community College
Github Skills (9)
database-migrations10
php10
database-migration10
api10
laravel10
apidoc10
mysql10
laravel-mix10
database-design9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
opengovfoundation/madison
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Madison is a platform for lawmakers to share legislation with their citizens, allowing the community to add comments and suggest improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:631 commits, 91 PRs, 471 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to back-end development tasks, focusing on database migrations, API modifications, and core logic. They made changes to database schema and data types, as well as modifications to document and comment APIs. Furthermore, the user removed obsolete database references related to user interactions and deprecated features.
reactcitizenslegislationsuggestimprovements
sethetter/aoc-2019
Nov 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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