George Shammas
Site Reliability Engineer at Two Sigma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Shammas is a Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure from startups to large engineering organizations. Based in New York, he has driven major transformations—most notably consolidating legacy config management into containerized, self-healing AWS ECS platforms at MakerBot and hardening production at Two Sigma. He combines deep Linux systems and automation expertise (puppet, terraform, Docker, CoreOS) with practical DevOps patterns like ChatOps, spot-instance testing, and PCI/SOX automation to reduce costs and operational risk. An early community builder, he co-founded NYC Resistor and a hacker collective, reflecting a long-running commitment to hands-on experimentation and mentorship. His open-source backend work includes enhancing ifconfig.io with Gin-based request handling and systemd/fastCGI deployment support, showing an eye for lightweight, production-ready tooling. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex infrastructure requirements into auditable, repeatable systems that enable product teams to move fast.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at New York City College of TechnologyNew York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
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Github Skills (8)
g10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
go-gin10
systemd8
elasticsearch6
kibana6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
georgyo/ifconfig.io
Jul 2014 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 81 commits, 37 PRs in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `ifconfig.io` project, as evidenced by the initial template loading and subsequent modification of the `main.go` file. Their contributions involved integrating the Gin framework, defining request handling, and adding functionality to return various network-related data to the client. They also implemented features for fast CGI and systemd socket support, indicating a focus on deployment and server configuration.
whatsmyipifconfiggo
georgyo/nix
Apr 2018 - Aug 2024
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches, 10 tags in 6 years 4 months
nixospackage-managerpurely-functional
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