VP, Chief Technical Officer at Sendmail, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- VP, Chief Technology Officer at Sendmail, Inc.
- Developer & Committer at The FreeBSD Project
- Developer & Volunteer at Sendmail Consortium
- Past
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- Chief Architect at Sendmail, Inc.
- Director, Strategic Technology at Sendmail, Inc.
- Senior UNIX Network Systems Administrator at Sendmail, Inc.
- Principal Engineer at Sendmail, Inc.
- Senior UNIX Systems Administrator at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Senior Network Administrator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Education
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- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Gregory Shapiro’s Summary
Software engineer with a strong system administration background from experiences administering corporate, academic, and research computation facilities, supporting students, faculty and staff, and managing and integrating network services. Experienced in installing, managing, and upgrading UNIX operating system.
Gregory Shapiro’s Experience
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VP, Chief Technology Officer
Sendmail, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
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Developer & Committer
The FreeBSD Project
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)
* Primary responsibility is maintaining sendmail and associated infrastructure.
* Commit fixes to various other userland applications. -
Developer & Volunteer
Sendmail Consortium
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1996 — Present (13 years )
* Assist in development of open source sendmail, including locating and fixing bugs, integrating modifications, and contributing new functionality.
* Provide technical support to users with sendmail related problems and questions.
* Assist in supporting the sendmail web pages and sendmail frequently asked questions (FAQ).
* Perform alpha and beta testing of all open source sendmail releases as well as discuss future directions for sendmail. -
Chief Architect
Sendmail, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 1 month)
* Responsible for the product as a whole and the important design decisions that ensure the product's functional integrity.
* Ensure that high level requirements are consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined.
* Ensure that components integrate and interact correctly and identify potential design flaws before they become a problem.
* Review and validate all design specifications.
* Key decision maker for the architecture and design changes based on feedback from the field, engineering, and executive management.
* Research future product needs.
* Provide feedback to product marketing for future product requirements.
* Assess functionality requirements based on preliminary marketing requirements document.
* Advise VP/Engineering in implementation of engineering processes with regards to specifications and engineering best practices.
* Resource for engineer questions and mentoring. -
Director, Strategic Technology
Sendmail, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year )
* Evaluate, analyze, and perform technical assessment on potential partners and products for integration with Sendmail's offerings.
* Provide technical research for possible product creation/integration.
* Provide technical assistance to VP, Business Development for all technology partnerships as needed and assist the field with any partner product research or competitive information.
* Interface with partners for technical presentations and lab evaluations.
* Make recommendations for product road maps and product designs to both Product Marketing and Engineering. -
Senior UNIX Network Systems Administrator
Sendmail, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
November 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 1 month)
* Configure, troubleshoot, and manage network and security infrastructure including UNIX/Linux and Windows systems; local and remote office networks; Checkpoint FW-1, Cisco IOS, ipf, and ipfw firewalls; Checkpoint VPN-1 server; email and LDAP infrastructure; and RSA SecurID.
* Hardware specification, installation, and troubleshooting including UNIX/Linux servers, Network Appliance file servers, various appliances, and network gear.
* Beta testing Sendmail, Inc. software in production before general release to customers.
* External product evaluation for both production use and potential partner purposes.
* Help plan for system requirements, security issues, etc., for new projects as they come up.
* Maintain CVS and Perforce source repositories and Bugzilla bug tracking server. -
Principal Engineer
Sendmail, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1998 — November 2002 (4 years 9 months)
* Act as a major technical resource to fellow engineers and others in the company.
* Participate in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on behalf of Sendmail.
* Assist engineering managers in project design and planning.
* Software engineer for sendmail, an Internet standards-based mail transfer agent (MTA).
* Design and implement a web-based graphical user interface for configuration and administration of sendmail.
* Coordinate alpha and beta tests of both open source and commercial sendmail releases.
* Provide on-going support to open source sendmail users via the Sendmail Consortium. -
Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(Educational Institution; Computer & Network Security industry)
June 1992 — February 1998 (5 years 9 months)
* UNIX system administration including performing operating system upgrades and configuration, maintaining system and network security, and providing a homogeneous environment to the over 4200 users on 200+ computer systems.
* Assist in specifying, designing, implementing and managing residence hall network and dial-in modem services for off campus users.
* Administer and maintain campus network services, including Cisco router configuration, e-mail servers, DNS servers, and web servers.
* Help students, faculty, and staff with problems with computer systems; report verified troubles to vendors when appropriate.
* Recommend policies on system use and services.
* Participate in beta tests and work with outside vendors on WPI related projects. Field test workstations, servers, peripherals, and operating systems for Digital Equipment Corporation. Beta test GNU Emacs, sendmail, and BIND.
* Act as technical liaison on WPI's behalf with Internet service providers. -
Senior Network Administrator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(Non-Profit; Computer & Network Security industry)
February 1995 — May 1995 (4 months)
* Administer Sun Solaris UNIX server serving LAN X terminals, electronic mail, domain name service and Internet file transfers.
* Administer Novell Netware 3.X servers, including a CD ROM server.
* Install and configure LAN based software and hardware.
* Resolve system, network, and user problems.
* Implement solutions for users as directed by service requests.
* Maintain security of client accounts and LAN resources.
Gregory Shapiro’s Education
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
BS , Computer Science , 1988 — 1992
Graduated with distinction
- Activities and Societies:
- Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honor Society)
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