Seth Foster
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Foster is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building backend systems for Ansible Controller at Red Hat using Python and Go. He is an active open-source contributor to the widely used AWX project, where he focuses on LDAP, OAuth2, session management, and edge-case fixes like numeric top-level domain validation with unit tests. His background in neuroscience research and data tooling gives him a strong foundation in processing and visualizing complex, real-time data—skills he applies to reliable automation platforms. Based in Durham, NC, Seth combines careful engineering with a pragmatic approach to error handling and configuration robustness that improves platform stability for large-scale automation users.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Neuroscience at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (14)
testing10
automation10
automations10
python10
django10
oauth9
ldap9
rest-api8
ansible-galaxy8
api-rest8
ansible8
restful-api8
api-design8
cicd7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:557 reviews, 199 commits, 314 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to LDAP server configurations and user session management within the AWX project. They added a custom regex and unit tests to handle numeric top-level domains. The user also improved error handling by checking for existing users before saving session memberships and also implemented changes to the OAuth2 provider settings and configuration.
pythondjangored-hathatupstream
fosterseth/receptor
Jun 2020 - Jul 2024
A rewrite of https://github.com/project-receptor/receptor, in Go
Contributions:5 PRs, 532 pushes, 104 branches in 4 years 1 month
golangrewrite
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