Speaker Details

Shixiong Shang started his career back in 1999 at Nortel Networks. In 2005, he joined Cisco Systems and has been working in Cisco Advanced Services organization for many years on Service Provider Video solution in datacenter and cloud environments. 

Shixiong put his arms around OpenStack since Folsom release to virtualize software-based video encoder applications on OpenStack. In 2013, Shixiong and his coworker, Randy Tuttle, successfully enabled OpenStack Grizzly, and then Havana releases over IPv6. The whitepapers were published and received warm acceptance from the community. Afterwards, Shixiong became active contributor to Neutron IPv6 subteam.

Shixiong is a frequent speaker to local OpenStack community during meetups on various topics. He also delivered two sessions in Vancouver Summit.

Right now Shixiong is CEO of CloudPerceptions, a cloud service-assurance startup company based in Raleigh, NC, USA.