Riley O'donnell
Senior Principal Solution Architect at Wind River
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRiley O'donnell is a Senior Principal Solution Architect with nine years of hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-native, Kubernetes-driven platforms for defense and civilian government customers. As a technical co-founder of Rancher Government Solutions and former Consulting Engineer at Rancher Labs, he combines deep platform engineering skills with product-focused delivery, translating complex mission requirements into secure, scalable architectures. Riley has led large-scale cloud migrations and PaaS modernizations at organizations like DigitalGlobe/Maxar, proving adept at coordinating cross-organizational efforts across multiple AWS regions. Now based in Denver and currently at Wind River, he blends enterprise rigor with startup agility and a practical knack for operationalizing Rancher/Kubernetes in regulated environments. Less obvious: his background spans HPC systems programming and large-scale data archive migrations, giving him rare expertise in both high-performance compute workflows and enterprise cloud infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
St. Xavier High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (45)
kubernetes9
rancher9
docker9
orchestration8
cli8
aws8
cattle8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
opentofu8
container-management8
devops7
developer-tools7
terragrunt7
nginx7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
daimonaslabs/g8s
Sep 2023 - Sep 2025
Generators for Gates
Contributions:5 releases, 1 PR, 98 pushes in 2 years
rancherfederal/partner-charts
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 20 days
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