Charles Shiflett
Systems Engineer at Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Emeryville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Shiflett is a seasoned systems engineer with 15 years of software and networking experience, currently contributing to ESnet in Emeryville. He built high-performance data transfer systems at Aspera, raising per-session throughput from 3 Gbps to over 100 Gbps by implementing a custom network stack and hand-tuned assembly. His background spans low-level C/C++ systems, cross-platform build and validation, and production clinical-trial data pipelines from his time at Johns Hopkins. Charles favors elegant, performant solutions to traditional bottlenecks and has a strong track record of breaking practical performance barriers. Trained in computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, he combines deep systems expertise with a pragmatic focus on reliability and measurable throughput gains.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (8)
command-line-interface8
escp7
csi5
csi-driver5
scp5
ceph4
cephfs4
kubernetes3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cbears/EasyCrypt
Jul 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
esnet/EScp
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
EScp is a high performance transfer tool that uses a command line interface similar to scp.
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
command-line-interfaceescpscp
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