Shannon Mcfarland
Global Vice President Of Developer Relations & The Open Source Program Office
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorShannon Mcfarland is a seasoned technology leader with over 12 years in cloud-native, networking, and developer relations, currently serving as Global Vice President of Developer Relations and head of Cisco’s Open Source Program Office. He combines deep engineering pedigree as a Distinguished Engineer with strategic leadership of DevNet, empowering developer advocacy, API- and AI-first product strategies, and open source governance at scale. Shannon has driven architecture and OSS contributions across Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, service meshes, and multicloud networking while leading technical due diligence for cloud-native acquisitions. A prolific speaker and author of Cisco-validated designs, he bridges R&D, product, and field teams to translate complex enterprise requirements into consumable platforms and tooling. Based in Boulder, he’s equally versed in hands-on platform architecture and community building—cofounding meetups and helping steward industry foundations—bringing a pragmatic, standards-minded approach to large-scale developer ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (105)
golang10
docker10
ecosystem9
podman9
opentelemetry-collector9
jaeger9
opentelemetry9
sdn9
openflow9
ospf9
juniper9
container9
go9
opentelemetry-go9
network-automation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shmcfarl/multicloud
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
shmcfarl/calisti_workshop
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:15 PRs, 52 pushes, 14 branches in 2 months
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