Sylvestor George
Software Engineer Technical Lead at Cisco
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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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
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversityIK Gujral Punjab Technical University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (15)
localhost9
cluster-manager9
cassandra8
maven7
java6
data-management5
engine5
metadata-management4
kafka-consumer4
opengrok4
metadata3
code-search3
asynchronous1
elasticsearch1
python1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sylvestor88/CMPE-295
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 16 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 months
sylvestor88/hello-flask
Dec 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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