Seth Hoenig
Founder at CattleCloud LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Hoenig is a founder and seasoned backend engineer with 15 years of experience building distributed systems and cloud-native tooling from Austin, Texas. He spent multiple impactful stints at HashiCorp, contributing to flagship projects like Consul and Nomad—improving agent APIs, gRPC integrations, and service discovery/Connect proxy behavior—demonstrating deep expertise in orchestrators and service mesh integrations. Earlier roles at Indeed and IBM grounded his experience in scalable production systems and large-team engineering. Now leading CattleCloud, he blends hands-on systems development with product-minded entrepreneurship. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to turn subtle protocol and API improvements into tangible operational benefits. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and has a track record of shipping incremental but high-leverage open-source fixes that improve usability for operators.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1330 reviews, 1201 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on enhancing the Consul Connect integration within the Nomad framework, specifically targeting service discovery and proxy configurations. The contributions included implementing support for features like upstream configuration, automatic settings for various resources like address, version, and the Envoy proxy, and handling improvements for the handling of the Connect proxy and various validation and check scenarios. These modifications involved creating and modifying core components, such as the API's, structs and internal mechanisms, for Nomad, to streamline deployment and operational considerations.
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hashicorp/consul
Mar 2016 - Apr 2021
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Seth contributed to the Consul project by fixing a typo, improving gRPC integration, enabling configuration options in the API, creating a fresh HTTP client for Unix sockets, and enabling query options on agent endpoints. Their work primarily focused on enhancing the agent API functionality, improving gRPC communication, and addressing various code-related issues. The commits reflect a focus on improving the usability and flexibility of Consul's API.
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