Seth Boyles
Member Of Technical Staff 3 at VMware
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Boyles is an experienced backend and DevOps-focused software engineer with 11 years building cloud-native tooling and platform services, currently a Member of Technical Staff 3 at VMware in Oakland. He has deep hands-on experience with Cloud Foundry projects—contributing to the official CLI and cloud controller by resolving API-driven bugs, hardening database interactions, and improving build and deployment workflows. Seth pairs a strong academic foundation in computer science (M.A., Mills College) with a creative writing BA from Carnegie Mellon, which shows in his clear technical communication and attention to usability in tooling. His career spans startups and platform companies where he reliably prevents race conditions, adds experimental security/configuration knobs, and smooths CI/build processes. Colleagues value him for shipping practical fixes that reduce operational friction in large distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Computer Science, 3.85, Master of Arts (M.A.), Computer Science, 3.85 at Mills CollegeBA, Creative Writing, BA, Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (18)
integration-testing10
cloud-foundry10
testing10
command-line-interface10
ruby10
go10
api10
command-line10
cli10
mysql9
apim9
apidoc9
configuration-management9
error-handling9
database-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:258 reviews, 218 commits, 244 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Seth's contributions focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller's functionality, specifically addressing database interactions and configuration. The user fixed database-related issues for MySQL, added experimental configuration options for the pbkdf2_hmac_iterations, and modified the application to support custom metric tags and prevent race condition. The user also introduced the ability to specify and manage custom memory and disk quotas for builds.
cloud-foundrycloudfoundryruby
cloudfoundry/cli
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on fixing issues and improving the Cloud Foundry CLI's functionality. This included correcting error messages, enhancing integration tests for label commands, and updating code to align with API changes, specifically for the 'set-label' and 'delete-route' commands. Additionally, the user contributed to build process improvements via the 'set-buildpack-labels' and 'manifest diff' features and resolving formatting issues.
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