Summary
Hunter Shepherd is a Staff Software Engineer based in Raleigh, NC with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, Kubernetes-focused platforms and CI/CD systems for enterprise products. He has led cross-functional teams at Broadcom, CarNow, and Salesforce to design secure AWS infrastructure, implement blue/green rollouts, and create observability and SLO frameworks that measurably reduced detection time for incidents. Hunter combines deep hands-on skills in Terraform, Kubernetes, Aurora, and distributed tracing with a history of shipping production-grade microservices and developer tooling. He has a strong background in automating mobile and web deployments and has acted as an SLO advocate across large organizations, aligning reliability goals across 13 teams. Comfortable debugging complex, cross-boundary systems including core Salesforce services, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a systems-first perspective to platform reliability and delivery. A Virginia Tech computer science alumnus, he pairs enterprise experience with a builder’s curiosity rooted in full-stack and infrastructure work.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at Virginia Western Community College