Shawn Heisey
Committer at The Apache Software Foundation
South Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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RockstarShawn Heisey is a seasoned systems, network, and security engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience managing large-scale Linux/UNIX infrastructures and complex Cisco networks. As an Apache Software Foundation committer and a longtime senior administrator, he’s led major migrations, built custom load balancers and distributed Solr search services, and operated petabyte-scale storage environments with near-zero downtime. His skill set spans BGP routing, firewalls, SAN/NAS, scripting (Perl/shell), MySQL/Oracle migrations, and mixed Windows/Linux domains including Exchange and RAS VPNs. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he combines deep operational expertise with pragmatic automation to reduce risk and keep critical services running. Based in South Jordan, Utah, he also prefers inbound networking invites to include a clear reason—reflecting a direct, efficiency-minded approach to collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, bad english
Stackoverflow
789reputation
29kreached
39answers
6questions
solr
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
lucene10
javas10
backend10
solr10
java10
apidoc9
logging9
api9
zookeeper8
testing7
apache-zookeeper6
solrcloud6
data-import-handler6
indexing6
solrj6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elyograg/cacheviewhandler
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
elyograg/haproxy-scripts
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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