Eric Bannon
Solutions Engineering Manager at Chainguard
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Bannon is a business-minded solutions engineering leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience across virtualization, enterprise IT operations, public cloud, and container platforms. He has built and led high-performance presales teams at high-growth startups and played a direct role in two successful exits (Turbonomic → IBM, StackRox → Red Hat), demonstrating repeatable go-to-market execution. At Chainguard he now leads Sales Engineering for the US West while advising investors on Kubernetes and container security opportunities, reflecting a blend of field leadership and market-facing technical strategy. His track record includes consistent quota overperformance and multiple SE awards, underscoring an ability to turn complex technical capabilities into compelling customer outcomes. Trained in econometrics and finance, he brings a rare combination of quantitative business acumen and deep technical expertise in securing the container supply chain. Colleagues describe him as customer-obsessed, relentlessly curious, and willing to challenge conventions to improve product and process.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Managerial Finance and Investment Analysis, Advanced Managerial Finance and Investment Analysis at Copenhagen Business SchoolBachelor's of Science, Double Major in Econometrics & Economics-Finance, Bachelor's of Science, Double Major in Econometrics & Economics-Finance at Bentley University
Github Skills (24)
release-management10
java9
spring-boot9
namespaces7
helm6
dcos6
integrations6
kubernetes6
k8s5
development-environment5
ansible5
openshift5
pods5
kubernetes-cluster5
charts5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
platform9/certified-apps
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:103 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
ericbannon/partner-catalog
Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
Example of a CVE rich application
Contributions:13 PRs, 87 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
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