Joshua Sheppard
AI And Technology Startup Advisor at Consulting
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Sheppard is an empathetic AI and engineering leader with 20+ years of software experience and a decade in AI-focused roles, advising startups and scaling machine learning organizations. He combines hands-on delivery—building the first AI product and Data Science team at Infinite Campus and launching an event-driven AKS-hosted ML system that drove $1B in business impact at C.H. Robinson—with strategic CTO-level guidance for early-stage founders across mental health, education, finance, retail, and HR. He’s proven at improving engagement and efficiency (NLP tools +25% engagement, 30% faster development) while cutting costs and restructuring teams to retain talent during downturns. A coach of managers and player-coach supervisors, he emphasizes MLOps, scalable architecture, and pragmatic product roadmaps that align tech with business outcomes. Based in Eden Prairie, MN, he also speaks publicly about Kubernetes and systems design, bringing both technical depth and clear communication to complex engineering transformations.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS Management of Technology, MS Management of Technology at University of MinnesotaBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
French
Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joshuasheppard/k8s-by-component
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Companion files for my "Kubernetes by Component" series of posts on https://sheppard.in
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 8 months
k3dkubernetes-deploymentresource-managementupstreamk8s
joshuasheppard/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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