Ken Crandall

About Ken Crandall

Senior business-focused engineer with over 25 years of systems experience, including extensive Cloud, Virtualization, Linux, and Open Source experience and over 20 years of pre-sales experience.Results-driven with proven ability to develop efficient, complete and economic solutions to complex business problems helping customers get to market faster.Effective communicator, able to distill complex systems and processes into effective business solutions.Specialties: Pre-Sales Engineering, Product Architecture, Enterprise Software,Technical Presentation and Demonstration, Technical Marketing, PoC Deployments and WorkshopsOpen Source (Community, Development, Licensing)Public Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure)Private Cloud (OpenStack)Virtualization (KVM, Xen, VMWare)Containers and Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)Systems Management and Automation (Ansible)Serverless/FaaSOperating Systems (Linux, macOS, Solaris, UNIX, Windows)Storage (SAN, NAS, Distributed FS, Backup and Recovery, Volume Management, File Systems)Enterprise Systems Architecture

Experience

1. Sr Strategic Product Manager, Openstack and Kubernetes

   Rackspace Technology

   Jul 2024 — Present

Education

• University of Washington

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering

Skills

• System Architecture
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Network Security
• Unix
• Data Center
• Solution Selling
• Open Source
• Linux
• Pre-Sales
• Management
• Open Source Software
• Apache
• Redhat
• Professional Services
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Architecture
• Start-Ups
• Storage
• Consulting
• Nas
• High Availability
• Systems Management
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Architectures
• Operating Systems
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Intelligence
• Shell Scripting
• Storage Virtualization
• Solution Architecture
• Virtualization
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Storage Area Networks
• Servers
• Saas
• San