Seth Brunell

Fullstack Software Engineer

Seattle, WA

Summary

3+ years professional experience in modern Web development

Specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and microservice architecture

Focused on building reliable, maintainable, and secure systems at scale

Cornell University, College of Engineering

BS in Computer Science

Minor in Applied Mathematics

3.88 GPA

React, Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, Next.js, REST APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets

AWS CLI & Console, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, Route 53, SNS, SQS, IAM, ALB, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch

Bash, automated CI/CD pipelines and testing (Jest, Mocha, NUnit, JUnit)

SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)

Java, .NET, C#, C++, C, Python, Lua

Next.js app self-hosted on EC2 Amazon Linux, created in a single day (Route 53 → EC2 w/ Caddy Reverse Proxy, Amazon Linux running Node via systemd)

Custom CloudFormation template (IaC) to host hire@seth-brunell.com email (Route 53 → SES → SNS → Lambda + S3 → Proxy with SMTP)

Complete with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines from local to production

Containerized Express.js app featuring real-time multiplayer applications with my own client-server framework

Route 53 → ALB → ECS ASG → Express + WebSockets → ElastiCache (Redis) PubSub + S3

Global Draw → Persistent 2000x2000 pixel canvas with collaborative drawing across the world

Ricochet Tanks → Session-based 2D physics tank game with up to 8 players

Battleship → Online battleship game with realtime target highlighting

Hobbies away from the 'puter include: Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Snowboarding

Some of my favorite pictures taken over the last year:

Zion National Park

Silver Lake

Outside Salt Lake City

Sunset in the Mountains