Summary
George Shaw is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on technologist with 13+ years of experience spanning hardware, firmware, and full-stack software, from CPU and board-level design to web and cloud services. He has led distributed teams to deliver production systems in location services, conversational AI, payments, and AR pilots, and has a track record of migrating and modernizing microservice platforms and secure PII gateways. A pragmatic manager and mentor, he emphasizes quality, avoids technical debt, and scales teams by enabling direct reports to succeed. Notably, his career includes architecting the ShBoom 32-bit RISC MPU and driving patent-backed innovations that generated significant commercial value. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs deep technical breadth with clear communication and a knack for quickly mastering unfamiliar domains to make complex projects succeed.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley