Denise Schannon

VP of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scaling Kubernetes for enterprises
  • Keynote speaker at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
  • Leader in open source and cloud native technologies
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader specializing in Kubernetes and cloud native technologies.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProject ManagementTeam Management

Other Skills

Drive ChangeStrategic ThinkingCommunicationProject LeadershipProblem SolvingStrategic InitiativesStrategic PlanningLeadershipAnalytical SkillsTeam MotivationCoaching & MentoringEngineering ManagementChange ManagementManagementSoftware Development

About

Denise Schannon is an engineering leader who builds repeatable processes and scales high-performing teams. By prioritizing complex technical needs and turning them into executable plans, she helps platform and DevOps engineers make Kubernetes multi-tenancy practical, predictable and easier to adopt in real enterprise environments. Denise is passionate about open source software, cloud native technologies and empowering engineers to innovate and collaborate. She has been a keynote speaker at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, where she shared her insights and best practices on Kubernetes management and cloud native projects. She holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.

Experience

17 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Vcluster

VP of Engineering

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

Suse

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering, Rancher and Kubernetes Distributions

Mar 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

  • Part of the senior leadership team and led an engineering organization composed of 12 teams over 6 countries that delivers Rancher, the primary product of the Enterprise Container Management business unit with 500+ paid enterprise users and 40,000+ community users and three (3) Kubernetes distributions (k3s, RKE and RKE2).
Drive ChangeStrategic ThinkingEngineering LeadershipProject Management

Director of Engineering, Rancher

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

Drive ChangeStrategic ThinkingEngineering LeadershipProject Management

Rancher labs

3 roles

Director Of Engineering (acquired by SUSE)

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Led a growing engineering team and built internal structure across technical teams including product, support, technical sales and engineering. Part of the successful exit and acquisition of Rancher Labs by SUSE LLC in December 2020.
Drive ChangeStrategic ThinkingEngineering LeadershipProject Management

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

Drive ChangeCommunicationEngineering LeadershipProject Management

Member of the Technical Staff

Mar 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Created all engineering and project management processes for the technical business teams.
  • Created and managed the process to prioritize all customer escalations from support and customer success while providing status updates of development progress from initial request to delivery in the product.
  • Designed and built the forums.rancher.com.
  • Launched the Rancher documentation site and maintained all content creation over 4 years.
  • Led all community-based weekly training sessions of Rancher to educate and drive adoption across the open source community.
Drive ChangeCommunicationProject ManagementTeam Management

Citrix

2 roles

Technical Project Manager

Mar 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs · Santa Clara, California, United States

  • Managed cross-functional projects from planning to delivery for the Cloud Platforms group in development of Citrix CloudPlatform powered by Apache Cloudstack.
Drive ChangeCommunicationProject ManagementTeam Management

Financial Analyst, DataCenter & Cloud

Sep 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

  • Finance business partner with annual budgeting including monthly, rolling forecasts. Assisted with the financial integration of the Cloud.com acquisition.
CommunicationProject LeadershipProject ManagementTeam Management

Vmlogix

Project Manager (acquired by Citrix)

Oct 2008 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · Santa Clara, CA

  • Supported the US sales headquarters in various departments as office manager, HR benefits manager, accounts payable, Salesforce admin and IT.
CommunicationProblem SolvingProject ManagementTeam Management

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor's Degree — Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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