Shawn Wormke is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 11+ years at F5 and a 20+ year software career that began in hands-on roles at Cisco. As SVP of Product Management he now drives strategy across F5’s portfolio, uniting UX and product teams to deliver cloud- and Kubernetes-era solutions with clarity and speed. He has a track record of turning open-source initiatives into commercial products—helping pioneer efforts in Kubernetes, OpenStack, and incubating Aspen Mesh—while also modernizing NGINX for enterprise developers. Comfortable shifting between deep technical work (contributions to F5’s f5-common-python SDK and test/DevOps improvements) and executive strategy, he excels at aligning teams around customer-driven roadmaps. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he blends a quality-engineering origin with product stewardship to scale pragmatic, real-world solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Wyoming
Python SDK for configuration and monitoring of F5® BIG-IP® devices via the iControl® REST API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:6 releases, 101 commits, 36 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on improving the project's structure and testing infrastructure for the Python SDK. They implemented a basic directory structure and sample files aligned with a team template, which indicates a focus on project organization. The user also addressed issues with test execution by dynamically finding JSON files and introduced improvements to testing frameworks. Refactoring code, initial URL refactoring and making improvements, and general code improvements also show backend developer skills.
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
big-ipagentopenstackopenstack-environment
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Shawn Wormke - Senior Vice President Product Management at F5