Seth Falcon
VP Of Engineering at CalmWave
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Falcon is a product-focused VP of Engineering with ~18–20 years of experience building high-performing, remote engineering organizations and scalable web services. He has led large teams at CalmWave, Prisma, BlaBlaCar, and Chef, driving platform migrations to cloud, launching unified products like Chef Automate, and improving velocity through CI, microservices, and clear team ownership. Seth combines deep technical roots—from contributions to R and Bioconductor for computational biology to backend work on Erlang/Ruby services—with a strong aptitude for hiring, coaching managers, and aligning engineering to product outcomes. He repeatedly unlocks business value (e.g., monetization and new-region payments at BlaBlaCar, faster releases and retention at Chef) by focusing teams on iterative delivery and cross-functional collaboration. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved robustness in server-side projects like webmachine and has been invited into core R development work—an uncommon bridge between research-grade tooling and enterprise SaaS. Based in Minneapolis, he’s known for translating technical depth into organizational practice: hiring processes, quarterly planning, and engineering management that scale.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Western Washington UniversityMA, Mathematics, MA, Mathematics at Boston University
French
Github Skills (9)
api-rest10
rest-api10
erlang10
api-design10
restful-api10
http9
testing8
architectures7
architecture7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
webmachine/webmachine
Mar 2009 - Nov 2011
A REST-based system for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the webmachine project. Their work involved fixing bugs, improving the handling of HTTP requests, and adding unit tests. They also refactored code by replacing deprecated modules and enhanced functionality related to URI generation and default port handling. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the robustness and maintainability of the server-side code.
rest-apiweb-applicationsrest
seth/my-emacs-dot-d
Mar 2012 - Aug 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 7 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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