# James Shen

> Building a secure,multi-cloud fabric
Make Push on Green a reality 
AI productivity in practice
Building AI-first team 
Product-minded software engineering

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesshen

100% on AI coding, on a journey to be agentic.
Always looking for ways to make an impact on the team with my years of datacenter compute, storage, networking, security and data engineering knowledge with multi-cloud  networking and security.

Interested in: Observability, Data Analytics, Elastic Search, Prometheus, Grafana, Distributed Storage, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Networking, Kubernetes
, AI apps, LLM evaluation
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking and data center technologies
- Years of experience building and maintaining infrastructure and services
- A quick learner, proficient at scripting and software development life cycle
- Strong problem solving skills, optimizing for the simplest, most robust yet practical solutions to meet business goals
- A reliable, dependable, trustworthy and, a participating team member
- A smart but humble with a bias for action

## Work Experience
### Principle Engineer, TLM @ Aviatrix
Jan 2024 – Present

### Principle Engineer @ Aviatrix
Jan 2022 – Present

### Staff Engineer @ Aviatrix
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Datera
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Design, build and operate a highly available, scalable, customer-facing SAAS distributed cloud analytics platform using ETL services, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Logstash, InfluxDB, ETCD, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS S3 SQS Kinesis
- Designed, built and automated feature and scalability test cases that cover Datera control plane and management plane features with end-to-end IO validation
- Took on expanded role as Solution Architect to support customer and business success 
- Engineering lead of strategic partner engagement 
- Part of the escalation team to troubleshoot, instrument key dashboards for production deployment
- Established network best practices of Datera cluster deployment in L2 and L3 mode (BGP, BFD, ECMP)

### Technical Leader @ Cisco
Jan 2009 – Jan 2015
Unified Computing System 
- System Management
- Converged Network Adapters ( CNA) M71KR / M81KR adapters
- Restful XML API / CLI Automation
- ESX / vSphere integration
- End-to-end network/platform troubleshooting.
- FCoE , Network Interface Visualizer ,SR-IOV
- High Availability
- Nexus 5000 
- Nexus 1000V 
- Nexus 1000V Virtual Security Gateway
- EMC Clariion , VNX 
- 3PAR Inserv F200
- Openfiler
- Vmware vSphere / Automation / API 
- Vmware vCenter / Automation / API 
- PowerCLI
- Vmware VCP5.5
- Python
- Jenkins
- GIT
- Automation

### Cisco Certified Security Professional @ Cisco
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009
CCSP

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
VFrame Data Center 
- Cisco's first cloud computing attempt with Service Oriented Concept.
- Network World Best Products 2008
- A data center orchestration software encompass 
    L3/L2 switch, LoadBalancer , Firewall , Server , SAN Switch , Storage Array.
- Catalyst 6500,Catalyst4000 , ACE , ASA ,FWSM , CSM
- HP / Dell / IBM rack/blade server, 
- Vmware ESX3.5 , Virtual Center
- MDS
- EMC Clariion / DMX
- Netapp

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Cisco Security Manager
- ASA , PIX Firewall
- IPS

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2001 – Jan 2004
Hosting Solution Engine
  - Datacenter Loadbalancer and firewall provisioning turn-key solution
  - First role-based access product in Cisco  
  - Local Director , CSM , CSS , PIX Firewall , SSL accelerator  

Wireless LAN Solution Engine
  - Wireless solution provision and monitor turn-key solution.
  - Support Cisco 1st gen wireless APs 
  - Simulated 3000 APs for scalability testing
  - Cross BU collaboration     

Monitor Center for Performance 
  - IPSec VPN monitoring and event correlation
  - Simulated 10000 IPsec VPN tunnels for scalability testing
  - Emulated 500 remote access VPN session to VPN concentrator 3000 cluster.

### Co-Op Intern @ Enterprise Management Business Unit, Cisco Systems
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000
CiscoWorks Management Foundation
  - Core software API testing 
  - JMS
  - CORBA
  - Developed a lab inventory checkout system using Java Servlet and MySql DB.


## Education
### MS in Computer Engineering
Santa Clara University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-shen-4b61564

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Last updated: 2026-04-12