Shaun Thompson
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Thompson is an Engineering Manager with eight years of formal experience and a two-decade career arc in embedded and infrastructure software, currently leading the Core Build Team at Docker. He combines deep low-level expertise in C/C++, x86 assembly, and real-time OSes with modern DevOps and developer-experience tooling—Kubernetes, GitLab CI, GitOps/Flux, and containerized build pipelines. Shaun has a track record at Lockheed Martin and Ironwood Cyber driving DevSecOps, inner-source practices, and CI/CD improvements that scaled across programs and teams. He pairs hands-on systems coding and test frameworks (Catch2, Google Test, Boost) with people leadership and architectural responsibility, having served as both front-line manager and principal engineer. Holding an MS in Computer Engineering and an MBA, he brings both technical rigor and business-oriented delivery to platform and developer productivity initiatives. A practical tinkerer by background, he often bridges firmware-level constraints and cloud-native workflows to streamline complex build and release lifecycles.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at University of Florida - Warrington College of BusinessMS Computer Engineering, MS Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (73)
docker-desktop10
dockerfile10
cloud-native10
oci-image10
ecosystem10
docker-swarm10
golang10
cli10
container10
buildx10
go10
dockerhub10
buildkit10
docker10
docker-cli10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thompson-shaun/buildkit
Jul 2024 - May 2026
concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 10 months
thompson-shaun/buildx
May 2024 - Mar 2026
Docker CLI plugin for extended build capabilities with BuildKit
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
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