Rob Shepherd
Director at DataCymru Ltd
Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Shepherd is a seasoned IoT consultant and director with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering end-to-end sensor network solutions through his companies EvoMetric and DataCymru. Trained in computer systems engineering and holding PhD-level study in computer science from Bangor University, he blends deep systems, database and security expertise with practical full-stack development. Since 2015 he has focused on low-power IoT and LoRaWAN deployments for rural, environmental and smart-city applications, pairing hardware selection and fieldwork with cloud and dashboard development. He is comfortable making architecture and security decisions while also iterating on user experience and modular SaaS offerings like his Pethau platform. Prior roles managing university IT teams and multi-tenant network services give him strong operational discipline and customer-focused consultancy skills. Known for using open technologies and continuous self-directed learning, he often solves problems by adapting tooling in unconventional but robust ways.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Bangor University
English, Welsh
Github Skills (200)
prometheus10
messaging10
mysql10
spring-boot10
dashboard10
grafana10
flask10
logback10
data-visualization10
kairosdb10
analytics10
logdna10
logging10
elasticsearch10
streaming10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
robshep/logback-logdna
Jul 2017 - Dec 2020
A Logback appender for shipping logs to LogDNA
Contributions:2 releases, 5 commits, 8 pushes in 3 years 6 months
logbacklogdnajava-logginglogback-appenderslf4j
robshep/JavaFPE
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Format Preserving Encryption for Java BigIntegers
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 months
encryptionjava
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