Denise Schannon
VP Of Engineering at vCluster
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDenise Schannon is a results-driven engineering leader with 11 years of experience scaling cloud-native and Kubernetes-focused organizations from technical roots to global operations. Currently VP of Engineering at vCluster, she previously led 12 distributed teams at SUSE/Rancher responsible for Rancher and three Kubernetes distributions serving 500+ enterprise customers and tens of thousands of community users. Denise is skilled at building repeatable processes—having created engineering, escalation, and documentation systems at Rancher—that align product, support, and sales for smoother delivery and adoption. She combines technical grounding from an EECS degree at MIT with cross-functional finance and project management experience earlier in her career, which helps her balance technical priorities with business impact. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and community-minded, evidenced by running community training and launching Rancher’s docs and forums to drive open-source engagement.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (200)
container-management10
docker-machine10
team-project10
dashboard10
rancher10
ember10
isolation10
orchestration10
namespaces10
cloud-native10
k8s10
devspace10
distro10
catalog10
docker-build10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/wmi_exporter-package
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1 PR in 1 year
rancher/cluster-register
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 PRs, 1 push, 1 tag in 4 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.