Seth Thomas
Staff Build Engineer at Respawn Entertainment
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSeth Thomas is a Staff Build Engineer with 14 years of experience building and automating infrastructure for games, cloud platforms, and higher education, currently based in the Denver metro area. He has a long history in build and operations roles at studios and tooling companies—from Sony Online Entertainment and Vigil Games to Epic and Respawn—plus leadership experience as CTO of Polycount. Seth specializes in complex distributed systems, esoteric hardware troubleshooting, and relentless automation of build and release pipelines, often operating at the intersection of developer experience and production reliability. A committed open source maintainer and contributor, he understands the governance burdens of shared projects and focuses on making tooling accessible and sustainable. His background in Japanese studies hints at a curiosity for systems and cultures beyond code, which informs his collaborative approach to cross-disciplinary teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, scalable solutions that keep fast-paced game development and cloud operations moving.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Asian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (178)
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chef-client10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chef-boneyard/bento-ya
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
A RubyGem for managing chef/bento builds
Contributions:62 PRs, 37 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years
buildsbentorubyrubygemchef
chef-training/chef_classroom
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Chef-provisioning cookbook for managing a Chef Training Classroom
Contributions:16 PRs, 33 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 6 months
provisioning
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