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Gary Colman

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Director, Software Engineering at Cisco ThousandEyes
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Gary Colman is an experienced Director of Engineering at Cisco ThousandEyes, managing global teams focused on infrastructure, performance, and sovereign cloud services. His career spans leadership roles at Discord, Adobe, LinkedIn, and Google, specializing in large-scale storage, SRE, and data infrastructure. People who have worked with him describe him as a technical, strategic, detailed, and innovative leader.

Based in the Boston area, Gary is actively engaged with the local tech community, showing a keen interest in Generative AI and attending meetups on the topic. He has a direct communication style and a passion for emerging technologies like Natural Language Processing (NLP), knowledge graphs, and AI-driven payments.

He has a strict no-call policy for unsolicited vendor pitches and explicitly states that vendors who phone him without prior engagement may receive a curt response.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director, Software Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Large-Scale Infrastructure
His career is defined by managing multi-exabyte storage, data warehouses, and grid infrastructure for companies like Google, Facebook, and Cisco.
NLP & Knowledge Graphs
He is actively hiring and posting about the need for senior engineers with deep expertise in NER, entity linking, and graph embeddings, indicating a key current focus.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Director, Software Engineering
Cisco ThousandEyes
1-2022 - 1-2024
Director Of Engineering
Discord
3-2019 - 1-2022
Director Of Engineering
Adobe
7-2017 - 12-2018
Senior Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering
LinkedIn
12-2015 - 6-2017
Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
LinkedIn
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Education
1993 - 1996
BSc
University of Cape Town
1981 - 1992
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Herzlia School
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