Jill Archer
Independent Owner at J. Archer Consulting
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJill Archer is a channel and alliance leader with 11+ years of focused experience architecting high-growth partner ecosystems and multi-million dollar GTM programs for both startups and market leaders. As an independent owner and former director at Red Hat and IGEL, she builds strategic partner programs, drives executive-level engagement, and operationalizes sales enablement that converts into measurable pipeline and revenue. Jill blends deep technology fluency—spanning cloud, virtualization, telco NFV, OpenStack/RHEL, and DevOps—with hands-on experience in contract negotiation, program governance, and partner recruitment. Uncommonly for a partner executive, she also contributes to open-source DevOps tooling—enhancing Ansible modules and CI/CD pipelines—bringing practical automation and testing rigor to partnership-driven solutions. Known for energetic cross-team leadership and mentorship, she specializes in turning complex multi-stakeholder challenges into repeatable, scalable partner motions.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 3.8 out of 4.0, Bachelors Degree, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 3.8 out of 4.0 at Saint Mary's CollegeB.S in Management Science w/MIS, Management Information Systems, B.S in Management Science w/MIS, Management Information Systems at Case Western Reserve University
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (33)
ec10
docker10
boto10
python10
cd10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
amazon-ec210
aws10
ci-cd-pipeline10
aac10
pipeline10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/amazon.aws
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
Ansible Collection for Amazon AWS
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:355 reviews, 220 commits, 216 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jill primarily contributed to the maintenance, refactoring, and build process of the Ansible collection for Amazon AWS. Their work included code cleanup, migration tests, and enabling test suites, which demonstrates a focus on code quality and testing. The user also made adjustments to the shippable configuration, including fixes for change detection and the update of dependency revisions. They also refactored the module to use boto3 and implemented an EC2 vpc endpoint waiter.
ec2ansible-collectionansibleamazonamazon-aws
ansible-collections/community.aws
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Ansible Collection for Community AWS
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:244 reviews, 95 commits, 218 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jill's contributions primarily involve setting up, configuring, and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline for the Ansible collection. They made significant changes to the shippable.yml and associated scripts (shippable.sh, aws.sh, units.sh) to ensure proper testing, code coverage analysis, and deployment processes. This included tasks like installing dependencies, configuring test environments with Docker, and integrating code coverage reports into the pipeline. Furthermore, they addressed issues with test execution and corrected paths within the CI/CD setup, ensuring the automated testing environment operated correctly.
ansible-collectionansibleamazon-web-servicesaws-communityaws
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