Seth Orell
Principal Engineer at CAI Parsable
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Orell is a Principal Engineer based in Austin with 20+ years of experience designing scalable, serverless systems and cultivating engineering cultures that ship faster and more reliably. He specializes in AWS serverless architectures—Lambda, DynamoDB (single-table), AppSync, EventBridge—and has led migrations and event-driven redesigns across fintech, construction software, and Amazon’s global consumer org. Seth pairs hands-on architecture with delivery-focused leadership, having driven a 41,000% increase in deployment frequency and cut lead time to change to under 20 minutes by shifting teams to full ownership and CI/CD. He’s certified across AWS Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps, and writes about testing strategy and developer experience on Substack. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who tightens feedback loops and eliminates QA bottlenecks rather than just shipping new tools. Beyond architecture, he’s notable for translating organizational change into measurable operational gains.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Texas State University
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Github Skills (70)
documentclient10
azure-functions10
mobile-web10
serverless10
serverless-applications10
dynamodb10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
aws-sam10
serverless-framework10
vtl10
aws-dynamodb10
sam10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sls-reference-architectures/javascript-template
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Template for basic JavaScript serverless project
Contributions:117 PRs, 181 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
javascriptserverlessaws-lambdanodejstypescript
sls-reference-architectures/job-pattern-one
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Job pattern with async status updates. ApiGtwy, Lambda, DynamoDB, StepFunctions
Contributions:244 PRs, 345 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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