Will Chan
Cofounder And CPO at Obot AI
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolWill Chan is a founder and product leader with 15 years building cloud-native and open-source infrastructure, currently cofounder and CPO of Obot AI in Mountain View. He previously scaled engineering and product teams as CPO/cofounder of Rancher Labs (acquired by SUSE) and served as VP of Engineering at SUSE overseeing widely adopted Kubernetes projects like Rancher, K3s, Longhorn and Rancher Desktop. His career traces back to founding work on CloudStack at Cloud.com and leadership roles at Citrix, giving him deep expertise in IaaS, containers, and distributed systems. Will combines hands-on engineering roots with strategic product leadership, repeatedly taking open-source platforms from inception to large commercial adoption. He’s known for operationalizing complex infrastructure into developer-friendly platforms and for favoring open, interoperable control planes—an approach reflected in Obot MCP Gateway. Based in Silicon Valley with a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, he pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial drive.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDiamond Bar High School
Github Skills (10)
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
apache-cloudstack10
java10
back-end-development9
javascript9
html9
css8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
CloudStack-extras/CloudStack-archive
Aug 2010 - Jul 2011
DEPRECATED & read-only!! - This repo exists for GPL compliance only. CloudStack development has moved to the ASF - see http://cloudstack.apache.org/
Contributions:432 commits in 10 months
apache-cloudstackgplapachecloudstackcompliance
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