Seth Wiesman
Field CTO at The Apache Software Foundation
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolSeth Wiesman is a Field CTO and engineering leader with 11 years of experience helping companies adopt and operate real-time data systems. At Materialize he progressed from Senior Developer Advocate to Director of Field Engineering and now Field CTO, combining technical strategy with customer-facing leadership. A long-time Apache Flink committer, he has made notable contributions such as exposing RocksDB native metrics and improving Flink’s JDBC connector and Stateful Functions test utilities. Seth blends backend systems engineering with full-stack and DevOps fluency—rebuilding project websites, designing data generators, and shaping configuration and secret management. Based in the Chicago area, he pairs an academic foundation (MS in Computer Science) with practical experience in streaming, databases, and observability. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex distributed-system tradeoffs into actionable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Stackoverflow
345reputation
7kreached
12answers
0questions
apache-flink
top-5%
Github Skills (44)
content-management-system10
postgresql10
data-pipelines10
apache-flink10
mysql10
rocksdb10
configuration-management10
big-data10
kafka10
flink-sql10
distributed-systems10
jdbc10
java10
javas10
sql10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink-web
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Apache Flink Website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 36 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to rebuilding the Apache Flink website. Their work involved updating content, modifying HTML files, and restructuring blog posts to improve the website's presentation and information architecture. This includes updating links, fixing layout issues, and incorporating new content, demonstrating a focus on front-end development and content management within the project's web presence.
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apache/flink-playgrounds
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
Apache Flink Playgrounds
Role in this project:Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Seth contributed to the creation of a data generator for simulating transactions, including the implementation of throttling to control the generation rate. They added MySQL configurations for a spend report, creating the necessary table schema. Furthermore, the user integrated the data generator with a Flink Table API walkthrough, providing the foundational code to read transactions from Kafka and write the aggregated results to a MySQL database.
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