Ronald Petty
Principal Consultant at RX-M, LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRonald Petty is a principal consultant and cloud-native architect based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience advising Fortune 100s and startups through his firm RX-M, LLC and Minimum Distance. He blends hands-on engineering, executive leadership (former CTO/CIO roles at Griddy and other firms), and classroom instruction, having taught business and technology at UC Berkeley Extension. Ronald is active in the Bay Area tech community as chair of both the Internet Society and ACM chapters and co-leads the CNCF AI Technical Community Group, reflecting a focus on open internet policy and cloud-native AI. He is also an author and advisor whose work spans architecture, audits, training, and operational resilience—often translating complex cloud workflows into practical, auditable recommendations. A less obvious strength: he pairs technical depth with board-level governance experience, bridging nonprofit leadership and enterprise technology strategy.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at DePaul Driehaus College of BusinessMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Kentucky
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
proxy10
interpreter10
cryptocurrency10
scheduling10
svg10
mesos10
middleware10
modular10
ord10
ecosystem10
ledger10
api10
in-memory10
openid-connect10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
Apress/network-prog-with-go-2e
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Source Code for Network Programming with Go Language, 2nd Edition
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
golanggo-languagenetwork-programming
ronaldpetty/k8sgpt
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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