Seth Washeck
Senior Principal Database Administrator
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Washeck is a Senior Principal Database Administrator with 15 years of experience designing, tuning, and operating large-scale database estates in 100% AWS environments. He has supported 5,000+ databases across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Redis, MySQL/MariaDB and OpenSearch, and led migrations and cost-optimization projects that saved roughly $200k/year by moving Elastic Search to AWS OpenSearch. Seth blends deep performance engineering (perfmon, Extended Events) with custom tooling in .NET, Go, PowerShell and DuckDB to predict sizing needs, detect regressive queries, and recommend index consolidations using similarity analysis. As a hands-on leader he has managed global DBA teams, reduced storage costs by 65% through creative infrastructure choices, and built internal recommendation engines slated for broader cloud adoption. Based in Littleton, CO, he pairs technical rigor with an educator’s mindset—coaching teams and documenting best practices to make complex systems more reliable and cost-effective.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Biblical Studies - New Testament, M.A., Biblical Studies - New Testament at Denver SeminaryM.S. (Incomplete), Knowledge Management and Decision Support, M.S. (Incomplete), Knowledge Management and Decision Support at University of Colorado Denver
German, Greek
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Github Skills (58)
dotnet9
docker-engine9
linux9
powershell9
shell8
macos8
netcore8
command-line8
windows8
csharp8
transformation7
desktop7
xamarin7
dotnet-core7
sql-server7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swasheck/swasheck.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
DenverSeminary/ApplyWeb
Feb 2011 - Mar 2011
Contributions:21 commits in 1 month
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