Seth Goings
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Goings is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Boulder, Colorado with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently operating and scaling Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft. He blends hands-on engineering and leadership, having progressed from DevTools lead roles to VP Engineering at Deis and senior management positions focused on AKS. Seth’s strengths are in delivery automation, infrastructure-as-code, and test-driven deployment pipelines—skills he demonstrated contributing to the Deis PaaS by improving test and provisioning automation and adding Vagrant/AWS support. He favors long-term maintainability and process automation, turning manual pain points into repeatable systems that accelerate teams. Collected academic training in math and computer science underpins his pragmatic approach to complex distributed systems. A practical tinkerer at heart, he has a track record of moving open-source tooling from prototype to production use.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Carpentry Electrical Psychology, Carpentry Electrical Psychology at Red Rocks Community CollegeBS Math and Computer Science, BS Math and Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
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Github Skills (20)
docker10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
sh10
shell10
testing9
aws9
automation9
vagrant9
automations9
infrastructure-as-code8
socket6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
deis/deis
Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
Deis v1, the CoreOS and Docker PaaS: Your PaaS. Your Rules.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 35 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Seth focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and improving the automated deployment process. They introduced new tests for provision and upgrade functionality, and enabled repeated runs of setup scripts. Furthermore, the user added support for Vagrant and AWS in the rigger scripts, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure automation and cloud deployment. They also updated the Docker version used for Jenkins nodes.
dokkupaascoreosdockerkubernetes
sgoings/rigger
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:76 pushes, 58 branches in 1 year 8 months
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