Sheldon Burks
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSheldon Burks is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and IoT systems, currently working on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Bare Metal Compute control plane. He has led cloud-driven, real-time IoT solutions and zero-touch provisioning at Lexmark, migrating microservices across AWS, Kubernetes, and Azure while designing predictive analytics pipelines for AI/ML consumption. Comfortable across the stack, Sheldon combines hands-on engineering with operational ownership of large-scale services and a track record of enabling seamless platform migrations. A summa cum laude Computer Engineering and Computer Science graduate, he pairs strong academic rigor with pragmatic problem-solving honed through field-facing customer support and mission-critical factory workflow projects. Notably, he blends low-level compute control experience with IoT edge telemetry expertise—bridging device and cloud to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Summa Cum Laude, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, 3.93, Bachelor’s Degree, Summa Cum Laude, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, 3.93 at University of Louisville
Github Skills (12)
media10
sdk10
markov10
java10
discord-bot9
azure-services9
azure-functions9
azure9
azure-sdk8
discord8
chat7
microsoft6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SigEpKYBeta/SigEp-WebApp
Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:41 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
reactsigma-phi-epsilonchapterphiepsilon
SheldonB/discord-markov-bot
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
A Discord bot to generate Markov sentences from a model based on your server chat logs.
Contributions:90 commits, 25 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 7 months
model-baseddiscordbotchatdiscord-bot
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