Rex Shang
Senior Director Of Engineering at Gen
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRex Shang is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience building and delivering large-scale IP networking and security software across North America, EMEA and APAC. He has led teams from small R&D groups to 200+ person organizations, driving Agile transformations, scaled Scrum, and on-time, on-budget delivery for projects exceeding $9M. Technically fluent in Golang, Java/C++, and Python prototyping, Rex couples deep systems and DevOps expertise with practical ML, data pipeline, and cloud knowledge gained through machine-learning-driven network security work. His career blends operational rigor—improving code promotion performance by over 50% and founding inner-source initiatives—with cross-cultural execution, including a successful long-term assignment in Beijing. Now based in San Jose, he combines strategic leadership as a Senior Director with the ability to roll up his sleeves and ship complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer & Electrical Engineering, Bachelor Computer & Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
openembedded10
cuda-toolkit9
cuda9
git8
operating-system7
freescale7
yocto7
microbenchmark6
tizen6
linux4
uefi4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WindRiver-Labs/yocto-kernel-cache
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:127 commits in 3 months
openembedded/openembedded-core
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Contributions:13 commits in 5 months
openembedded
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