Summary
Gilbert Standen is a seasoned Oracle and Linux infrastructure engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building high-performance, containerized enterprise systems and bespoke startups. He founded Orabuntu-LXC (now Orabuntu-LXD), an open-source GPL3 solution for running Oracle and other enterprise software at bare-metal speeds in LXC/Docker environments across AWS and on-prem, and has spoken and exhibited at major conferences worldwide. His career spans senior DBA and architecture roles for large organizations (Wells Fargo, CenturyLink, Mediacom) and hands-on product work in storage and SDN, demonstrating deep expertise in Oracle databases, LXC/LXD, Open vSwitch and SAN technologies. Gilbert also prototypes hardware products—PairPal—for delivering chilled, HEPA-filtered air to motorcyclists, showing a practical inventiveness beyond pure software. Based in St. Louis, he blends consulting and product development experience with a practical engineering mindset that favors performance, cost-efficiency, and open-source tooling.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Associate of Arts (A.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters, Associate of Arts (A.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters at San Diego Mesa College
English