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Seth DeWhitt 🎷

Software Engineer • Jazz Musician • Seattle, WA

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    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Software Development Engineer Intern - Amazon MQ Open Source

    • Reduced 2+ hour RabbitMQ broker restart cycle to under 5 minutes for Amazon MQ customers by validating auth/authz configs for 6 authentication methods with Erlang/OTP and JavaScript
    • Prevented confused-deputy and race conditions by migrating AWS credential handling to thread state per-request
    • Contributed bugfix to upstream RabbitMQ 4.2.9, fixing a SigV4 signing defect that failed every S3 GET request (PR #16759)
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    The Data Mine, Purdue University

    Research Lead & Teaching Assistant - Practical AI

    • Directing 11 student researchers in collaboration with the Practical AI Podcast (1.5M listens)
    • Implementing RAG chatbot trained on 349+ episodes with citation-backed responses
    • Designed scalable podcast generation platform integrating LLM-produced transcripts and voice clone models
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    Chewy

    Software Engineer 1 Intern - Supply Chain Replenishment Platform

    • Deployed scalable & containerized development environments with custom tooling for in-house model execution on AWS ECS/Fargate,reducing setup overhead by 80% and supporting 15+ engineers
    • Automated distributed system maintenance with AWS Lambda and Kinesis,lowering AWS expenses by 25%
    • Engineeredpersistent storage architecturelinking Okta SSO authentication with AWS EFS, ECS, and RDS to support secure stateful development sessions across container restarts
    • Designed and implemented Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines,decreasing deployment times by 66%
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    The Data Mine, Purdue University

    Undergraduate Data Science Researcher - Bayer Crop Sciences, Syngenta

    • Trained a LightGBM model on 500k+ rows to model climate change impact on corn yields at 91% accuracy
    • Optimized model performance through feature engineering and cross-validation, reducing RMSE by 24%
    • Implemented data preprocessing and QC pipelines for 100M+ data points, validated using mixed linear models

More About Me

I'm a Senior at Purdue University pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science with concentrations in Software Engineering and Security. When I'm not coding, I'm likely practicing saxophone, arranging jazz music, or experimenting in the kitchen.

This summer, I was a Software Development Engineer Intern at AWS, where I worked on the Amazon MQ Open Source team to eliminate a frustrating 2+ hour RabbitMQ broker restart cycle for customers by validating auth/authz configs for 6 authentication methods. (and used Erlang!!)

Skills

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GitHub
Linux
Python
Erlang
Node.js
Git
Docker
Bash
Next.js
React
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
TailwindCSS
Vite
Java
AWS
Jenkins
FastAPI
MongoDB
Supabase

Featured Projects

Here are some of my favorite projects :)

ControVirtual

ControVirtual

Streamlined and upscaled use of AMD SO-101 Robot Arms for industry experts via remote use of a Meta Quest S3, voice & natural language processing, and a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. Honorable Mention for "Best Use of AMD Tech" at StarkHacks 2026.

PythonC#OpenCVPyTorchFlaskLeRobotMeta Quest S3AMD SO-101 Robot Arm
GitHub
SlopMop

SlopMop

Chrome/Firefox browser extension that detects AI-generated content in social media feeds

PythonViteTypeScriptReactAWSPyTorchFirebase
GitHub

Current Favorite Songs

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