Seth Woodworth

About Seth Woodworth

Data Platform Architect and data engineering leader specializing in AWS + Snowflake (Airflow, dbt, Kafka) at enterprise scale. Builds greenfield platforms, modernizes legacy data platforms, and leads high-stakes integrations with measurable revenue and reliability outcomes. Known for governance-by-design (RBAC/PII), self-healing pipelines, and incident leadership.

Experience

1. Data Platform Architect

   Saks Global

   Mar 2025 — Present

   Data Platform Architect, owning the architecture, reliability, and modernization of Saks’ analytics and integration data platform on AWS (Terraform)+ Snowflake (Airflow, Fivetran, dbt, Kafka, Looker). Built the greenfield platform, scaled it to 0.5PB and Snowflake users. Architected event-driven commerce integrations, including Amazon marketplace.* Architected an event-driven Amazon marketplace integration (product listing, inventory, pricing/promos, logistics), enabling 22K products across 57 product schemas in 8 months, driving $1.5M/month sales while maintaining marketplace SLA compliance.* Led legacy systems retirement programs delivering ~$2M annual savings.* Architected a company-wide migration from legacy scheduling platforms (WADE, ESP, Automic/UC4) to Airflow, replacing an estate of ~85K scheduled jobs; led platform evaluation, vendor/partner selection, and implementation design.* Designed Snowflake governance and security patterns including RBAC and PII masking (dbt-driven), plus quality testing and lineage practices to support broad self-service consumption.

Skills

• Web Development
• System Administration
• Node.js
• Postgresql
• Mysql
• Git
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Html
• Software Development
• Python
• Ansible
• Javascript
• Unix
• Project Management
• Shell Scripting
• Bash
• Linux
• Css
• Testing
• Apache
• Programming
• Wikis
• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby
• Django
• Ubuntu
• Wordpress
• Linux System Administration
• Object Oriented Design
• Open Source
• Software Engineering