Gregory Shapiro
CTO, Messaging at The FreeBSD Project
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Shapiro is a hands-on technology executive and long-tenured CTO of Messaging at Proofpoint with 25 years of experience building and operating large-scale mail and messaging systems from the Bay Area. He blends deep software engineering and systems administration expertise with strategic leadership, having guided technical vision and execution across engineering, IT, and business development functions. An early and ongoing contributor to foundational open-source mail and OS projects—Sendmail and FreeBSD—he brings rare institutional knowledge of Internet messaging infrastructure. Gregory’s background as a senior UNIX and network administrator informs a pragmatic, security-minded approach to resilient system design and incident response. He is known for translating complex operational requirements into maintainable, production-grade platforms that scale.
25 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (71)
terraform10
openbsd10
paas10
unix10
tencent10
history10
linux10
azure10
shell10
netbsd10
philosophy10
src10
saas10
iaas10
bsd10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gshapiro/gshapiro
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
benlaurie/freebsd
Aug 2000 - Jun 2011
Contributions:311 commits in 10 years 11 months
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