Brett Sheffield
Founder at Librecast
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBrett Sheffield is a founder and seasoned open source software engineer based in Edinburgh with 13 years of professional experience building decentralized Internet infrastructure. He has led multiple ventures—currently Librecast, which focuses on decentralizing the Internet with IPv6 multicast, and Gladserv, an open source hosting and infrastructure provider emphasizing virtualization, scalability and high availability. Early entrepreneurship dates back to 1995, and he continues to blend hands-on engineering with company leadership as Managing Director of Penguin Factory Ltd. A passionate free software hacker, Brett champions IPv6 and multicast as practical tools for a more resilient, decentralized network. An unexpected detail: alongside deep networking expertise he’s also an aficionado of tractors, reflecting a pragmatic, tinkerer’s approach to both hardware and software.
13 years of coding experience
English, French, German
Github Skills (86)
python10
windows10
infrastructure10
multicast10
remote-execution10
udp10
javascript10
linux10
infrastructure-management10
js10
configuration-management10
rocket10
ipv610
network10
macos10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
librestack/gladd
Dec 2012 - Jul 2022
Contributions:705 commits, 169 pushes, 10 tags in 9 years 7 months
brettsheffield/gladbooks
Feb 2013 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1195 commits, 150 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 6 months
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