Seth DeWhitt 🎷

Software Engineer • Jazz Musician • Seattle, WA

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Aug 2025 - Present
The Data Mine, Purdue University
Technical Project Manager & Teaching Assistant (Corporate Partners Program)
- Directing a team of 11 students in collaboration with the Practical AI Podcast (PAI) and Prediction Guard
- Managing implementation of a RAG chatbot with vector search to link responses to episode transcripts/timestamps
- Leading design of full-stack podcast generation app using user-uploads and voice clone models trained on PAI hosts
- Providing technical guidance to team members, fostering a collaborative learning environment
- Planning/Leading biweekly Agile sprints, coordinating tasks and progress reviews across a 50k+ line codebase
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Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
Chewy Inc.
Software Engineer I Intern
- Developed a service for launching JupyterLab sessions loaded with custom tooling and configurable compute specs, extending an internal web app using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Docker, and Okta SSO auth
- Streamlined workflows for 15 data scientists via on-demand AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) compute infrastructure using the AWS boto3 API
- Enhanced user experience by implementing a paginated and searchable session management table
- Enabled secure persistent file storage across JupyterLab sessions by mounting AWS Elastic File System (EFS) to ECS tasks
- Deployed an AWS Lambda to periodically trigger backend clean-up via AWS Kinesis, using psycopg2, boto3, and EFS mounts to prune ECS tasks, clean PostgreSQL records, and enforce EFS file retention policies
- Built application and AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
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May 2024 - Aug 2024
The Online Marketplace Partnership (OMP)
Software Engineering Intern
- Integrated sales/advertising data from 5+ e-commerce platforms and 12+ databases into a unified KPI dashboard
- Connected disparate sources including Amazon, Google, Meta, Walmart, Shopify, and WooCommerce
- Enabled OMP experts to analyze data for 11 retail clients, with up to 60 performance metrics for 150 products
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Aug 2023 - May 2025
The Data Mine, Purdue University
Undergraduate Data Science Researcher (Corporate Partners Program)
- Collaborated with Bayer Crop Sciences to model future impact of climate change on corn yields, helping Bayer farming clients plan future adaptation strategies (2023-2024)
- Optimized a LightGBM model for large-scale genomic datasets through hyperparameter tuning and cross-validation, improving Pearson correlation and reducing RMSE
- Integrated machine learning models with GxExM to predict product placement for Syngenta (2024-2025)
- Implemented data preprocessing pipelines for quality control, including filtering genetic markers and normalizing phenotypic outliers using mixed linear models

More About Me

I'm currently a Junior at Purdue University pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Software Engineering. When I'm not coding, I'm likely practicing saxophone, arranging jazz music, or reading up on the latest tech trends.

This past summer, I was a Software Engineering Intern at Chewy, where I pioneered a powerful, yet scalable service to provide data scientists with development environments loaded with custom tooling and essential libraries, reducing expenses spent on dry-running optimization/machine learning models on AWS during the development process.

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