Seth Centerbar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Database Engineer and Developer
Seth is an experienced database engineer with a history of implementing configuration management and infrastructure as code at scale across dozens of SaaS applications. He has experience monitoring, tuning, and reducing the cost of numerous OLTP databases, focusing primarily on MySQL, DynamoDB, and Elasticsearch. His software and data engineering skills set him apart from traditional database administrators. He is detail-oriented, team-focused, and believes in the power of quality documentation.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
DataGrip, MacOS, Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Skype, Slack, Linux
The most amazing...
...project I've completed entailed moving 150 servers into SaltStack and 16 databases across seven companies into Terraform.
Work Experience
Senior Database Engineer
Togetherwork
- Architected event-driven data ingestion pipelines across multiple companies leveraging Serverless Framework, S3 Events, Lambda, and EMR.
- Migrated simple redshift workloads to Athena, Glue, and partitioned S3 file storage for multiple BI projects.
- Implemented Kinesis Streams, Kinesis Data Analytics, and Kinesis Firehose to S3 to ingest and monitor large volumes of application log data that were previously written to SQL Server.
- Migrated MySQL and SQL Server databases from on-premises to AWS.
- Trained engineers across teams on AWS Big Data and serverless best practices.
- Worked with the database engineering team and developers across multiple operating companies to tune queries, train on databases, and work with ORMs (Laravel, Rails, and Flask).
- Migrated read workloads to asynchronous MySQL replicas where appropriate for enhanced response times.
- Provisioned an XtraDB (Galera) mutli-master MySQL Cluster (and ProxySQL) with SaltStack for reduced failover time, enhanced data durability, and enhanced scalability.
- Created POC for Orchestrator in our on-premises data centers to increase visibility of replication topologies.
- Implemented database monitoring in Datadog across multiple operating companies and environments.
Data Engineer
SANS Institute
- Implemented a change data capture service to synchronize systems of record with Elasticsearch, as well as other derived data systems.
- Collaborated with back-end engineers to redesign and migrate DynamoDB tables for enhanced scalability, performance, and cost.
- Led the adoption of Terraform for data-related resources with operations.
- Designed a reporting service to proxy front-end requests to multiple data sources.
Experience
Personal Website
https://github.com/sethcenterbar/sethcenterbar.comSkills
Paradigms
Database Design, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, REST, Object-oriented Design (OOD)
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, MacOS, Percona, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redshift, SQL Server 2016
Languages
Python 3, Go, Java, TypeScript
Frameworks
Serverless Framework, Apache Spark
Tools
AWS Glue, DataGrip, Terraform, Amazon Athena, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Slack, Skype, Vim Text Editor, SaltStack, AWS Step Functions
Other
Software Engineering, Amazon Kinesis, Operating Systems, Solution Architecture, Amazon EventBridge
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Columbus State University - Columbus, Georgia, USA
Certifications
AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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