Sylvestor George
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSylvestor George is a versatile software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building full-stack, distributed systems and developer tooling from San Jose, CA. Currently a Software Engineer Technical Lead at Cisco after an eight-year run at Slack where he led Developer Workspaces efforts to make developer workflows more efficient and reliable. He has deep hands-on experience with backend APIs, Kafka, Cassandra data modeling, and automation that surfaced in production-focused features like real-time log analysis and code submission workflows. Known for pragmatic engineering — automating tedious operations and preventing merge conflicts before they happen — he blends systems-level thinking with strong delivery focus. With an MS in Computer Software Engineering and a background across networking, databases, and developer experience, he thrives on reducing developer friction and shipping resilient, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityIK Gujral Punjab Technical University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (27)
localhost10
cassandra-cluster9
lag8
aws8
cassandra8
apache7
maven7
engine6
java6
cross-reference5
search-engine4
code-search4
kafka4
golang4
kafka-consumer4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sylvestor88/CMPE-295
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 16 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 months
sylvestor88/cassandra
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 days
cassandraapachedatabaseapache-cassandrajava
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