Shannon Williams
Founder at acornlabs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorShannon Williams is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur, currently President and Co-Founder of Obot AI, where she leads the development of a secure, scalable enterprise gateway aligned with the Model Context Protocol standard. She previously co-founded Rancher Labs and helped grow it into the leading Kubernetes management platform, later serving as Chief Revenue Officer at SUSE following Rancher’s acquisition. Her career spans leadership roles at Citrix Cloud.com, Rancher Federal, and Cloud.com, with active service on the CNCF Governing Board shaping cloud-native ecosystems. She sits on the board of the Coral Reef Alliance, blending tech leadership with environmental stewardship, and maintains a strong footprint in the San Francisco ecosystem. A Northwestern University BSJ graduate, Shannon combines product execution with strategic go-to-market expertise and a passion for open-source, containers, cloud computing, and AI.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
docker10
rancher10
container9
container-management9
kubernetes9
containers9
cattle9
orchestration9
catalog7
linux-distro7
distro6
tachyons6
hugo-theme6
hugo4
photo4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smw355/my-rancher-catalog
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
smw355/kubecon-demo
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 9 pushes, 3 tags in 1 day
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