Seth ArvilaDesign Engineer

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Experience

  1. Software Engineer

    Microsoft · Nov 2025 – Present

    • Owned a segmented data entry control from early prototype to platform-wide release in D365 Finance & Operations: a React/TypeScript component inside the X++ framework that splits one field into structured sub-fields, replacing free text that depended on users typing delimiters correctly.
    • Built AI agent skills that update documentation from code changes, adopted across my team so engineers could spend their time on engineering instead of keeping docs in sync.
  2. AV Technology Student Manager

    North Dakota State University · Feb 2022 – Nov 2025

    • Led a team of up to 13 student technicians supporting 150+ classrooms and event spaces used by 12,000 students and 700+ faculty; promoted from technician to manager in nine months.
    • Built a dashboard for tracking open tickets and room issues, first in Angular, then rebuilt it in React so the team could maintain it after I left.
    • Built RoomMate, an iOS app that showed technicians when a classroom was free, because the university’s scheduling tool didn’t work on a phone.

Selected projects

  • Field Research Submission Tool

    Senior Design Capstone · NDSU Ag Data × Microsoft · Spring 2025

    Asked to add a spreadsheet upload, I found the real problem was a form that took one entry per submission, and proposed fixing the form instead. I led the redesign, creating all the Figma designs, validating them with a researcher stakeholder, and writing most of the React front end. The new multi-entry form shipped to researchers at all eight Research Extension Centers.

  • Apex IFE

    Personal Project · Summer 2026 – Present

    Designed and built a SwiftUI iPad app that recreates an airline’s seat-back entertainment system, simulating a full flight in real time with a moving map, a 3D chase view, movies and music. The flight keeps running through sleep and app restarts, so the screen stays believable for hours.

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Skills

  • Design: Figma, prototyping, design systems, typography, accessibility (WCAG)
  • Engineering: TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS, Swift/SwiftUI, Node.js, Git

Education

  • B.S. Computer ScienceNorth Dakota State University · May 2025
  • A.A.S. Networking and Systems AdministrationRidgewater College · May 2021

Earlier experience

  • Lead Auditorium TechnicianNew London–Spicer School District · Jun 2019 – Jul 2021
  • District Technology AssistantNew London–Spicer School District · Jun 2019 – Jul 2021
  • Advisor, Cateye ProductionsNew London–Spicer School District · Jun 2019 – Jul 2021
  • Head Coach, Junior High Knowledge BowlNew London–Spicer School District · Jun 2019 – Jul 2021

Awards

  • Campus KudosNDSU Staff Senate · Feb 2025
  • A/V Booth DedicationNew London–Spicer School District · May 2021
  • Patrick S. Gilmore Band AwardNew London–Spicer School District · May 2019
  • Technical Wonder AwardNew London–Spicer School District · May 2019

Clubs and organizations

  • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor SocietyTreasurer
  • Chi Alpha Christian MinistryNorth Dakota State University
  • MIS ClubNorth Dakota State University

Endorsements

  • Seth has unique skills when it comes to front-end development and he played a pivotal role in our project's large scale redesign of the user experience. He envisioned what the app could look like, built Figmas to express that vision, and helped the team execute on building those designs. Such skills are rare in software development and rarer still in a student. His impact to the success of the project was huge.

    Matt SchumacherSenior Software Engineer, Microsoft
  • He has taken on leadership roles inside our organization and has proven himself again and again, earning the respect and trust of everybody who has worked with him. He has consistently exceeded expectations, proving himself to be a highly dedicated, responsible, and capable professional.

    Daniel ErichsenAV Experience Coordinator, North Dakota State University