Chris Seaton

Experience

• Developing and championing solutions which improve how software systems are designed, developed, and operated at Addepar.
• Leading a team to design and implement and Addepar's authentication solution to enable high availability, global expansion, and multi-product rollout
• Introducing a CI/CD solution which supports Addepar's rapid growth in engineering headcount and evolution into a service-oriented architecture
• Mentoring engineers to become expert in operating web services at scale, and in navigating and safely changing large legacy codebases

• Developed, operated, and championed the reliable and durable distributed messaging system serving as the communications backbone of Adobe's event-driven business and commerce platform, and used in many user-facing product workflows.
• Scaled the message dissemination system to sustain a ten-fold increase in throughput within three months, now reliably guaranteeing the delivery of more than 30k messages every second
• Designed and implemented major features including scalable high-throughput HTTP messaging APIs with easy batching and fast consumer coordination, and a cross-region message replication and content-aware filtering system
• Planned and led the implementation of a live migration from self-managed Kubernetes to Adobe multi-tenant Kubernetes platform
• Presented on message system internals, event-driven architectures, and microservices at Adobe's Tech Summit in an highly rated session
• Contibuted to the design and development of business and commerce platform initiatives including promotions management and onboarding.
• Mentored engineers to help grow the skills and the discipline needed to confidently make changes to critical services with hundreds of other dependent production services

• Designed and implemented an iOS cloud file sync client based on Creative Cloud file storage and integrated with the Creative Cloud iOS application suite.