Craig Jellick
VP Of Engineering And Co-founder at Obot AI
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Jellick is a veteran software leader and startup co-founder with 11 years of senior engineering leadership and two decades of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms. As VP of Engineering and co-founder at Obot AI, he built and scaled the engineering organization from scratch while directly shaping product strategy and execution. Previously he led distributed teams at SUSE and Rancher Labs, driving production-ready Kubernetes distributions like K3s and RKE2 and an AI-powered observability platform, blending product vision with deep technical ownership. Craig remains a pragmatic full-stack contributor—his open-source work includes significant contributions to Acorn's runtime and the obot project—showing comfort from CLI tooling to documentation and image handling. Based in Phoenix, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability, often stepping between engineering, product, and operations to remove blockers and ship. He pairs a Penn State IST background with a track record of turning complex cloud-native challenges into broadly adopted, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Sciences and Technology Information Sciences and Technology, Information Sciences and Technology Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line9
cli9
docusaurus9
command-line-interface9
docker8
dockers8
front-end-development7
backend7
back-end-development7
documentation7
fest5
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
acorn-io/runtime
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A simple application deployment framework built on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 releases, 535 reviews, 200 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Craig contributed significantly to the project, implementing both front-end and back-end features. Their work included setting up the documentation site using Docusaurus, enhancing the command-line interface, and updating image handling logic for the application deployment framework. They also addressed several bugs and made improvements to the installation process. The user demonstrated a proficiency in the project's core technologies.
kubernetes
rancher/secrets-api
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 comments in 3 years 2 months
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