George Shepherd
Global Tech Lead - Systems And Cloud Engineering At Oracle - Network And Infiniband.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Shepherd is a seasoned global technology leader with over three decades of hands-on engineering and eight years in formal management, currently heading Oracle’s Systems and Cloud Engineering efforts for Networking and InfiniBand. He combines deep kernel and networking expertise—TCP/IP, SCTP, Unix STREAMS, SPARC assembly and crash analysis—with proven ability to build and run 24/7 cross‑timezone sustaining teams that deliver fixes for high‑visibility customers. George created and scaled mission‑critical support organisations at Sun Australia and later founded Oracle’s Solaris InfiniBand sustaining team, mentoring engineers and convening global technical forums. He is as comfortable diving into low‑level kernel code as he is translating complex technical truths for customers and stakeholders. A deliberate leader, he prioritises coaching, empowerment and measurable operational excellence, with many former reports moving into global roles. Unusually, his career choices have been shaped as much by family and life experience—relocating to give his daughter an education—as by technical ambition.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic engineering Assoc Dipl, Electronic Engineering, Electronic engineering Assoc Dipl, Electronic Engineering at Australian Airforce
English, French
Github Skills (10)
solaris9
weblogic9
plsql9
redfish9
linux7
build-system6
dock5
homebrew4
macos3
sourceforge3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
oracle/solaris-userland
May 2018 - Oct 2022
Open Source software in Solaris using gmake based build system to drive building various software components.
Contributions:2 commits in 4 years 5 months
linuxsoftware-componentsredfishweblogicbuild-system
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