Chad Metcalf

Experience

Docker

Chief Architect

2018 - 2021 (over 2 years)

Global sales leader, technical strategy, strategic partnerships.

Lead and built a global technical sales team from 0 to 36 in 3 years

Partnered with the SVP... more of Sales to build the broader sales team from 4 to 200

Partnered with the SVP of Customer Success to build the technical field (Solutions Architects, Support, Docs) and cross train them with the sales engineers

After the enterprise business was sold, rebooted Docker's cloud and content strategy

Rebuilt the AWS, Microsoft and GitHub relationships from the ground up.

Shipped two strategic partner product integrations. AWS and Azure built directly into the Docker CLI.

Director Global Solutions Engineering

2017 - 2018 (over 1 year)

Solutions Engineering Manager

2015 - 2017 (over 1 year)

Senior System Engineer

2014 - 2015 (7 months)

Puppet

Solutions Architect 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)

Sales Engineering in the West.

WibiData

Member of the Technical Staff 2012 - 2013 (over 1 year)

Back in the Kitchen. Infrastructure, build/release, automation.

Exit

Arch Rock

Release Engineer 2008 - 2009 (over 1 year)

Build/release, automation, infrastructure, testing.

SAIC

Software Engineer 2002 - 2007 (about 5 years)

Distributed systems, robotics, sensor networks.

SRI International

Software Engineer 2000 - 2002 (over 2 years)

Distributed systems. Embedded hardware.

Metcalf Advising

Principal 2019 - Present (over 7 years)

Advising companies building scalable businesses through Open Source, serving an Enterprise customer, in a Cloud world.
- Building Technical Presales/Sales teams
- OSS... more

Exit

Cloudera

Infrastructure Operations Lead 2009 - 2012 (almost 3 years)

Build/release. Infrastructure. Automation.

Started in Engineering building Cloudera's CDH2 distribution (also CDH3 and CDH4). Ran the internal clusters and production... more

Colorado School of Mines

Graduate Researcher 2005 - 2007 (over 2 years)

Researching Wireless Sensor Networks

Employee

Puppet, Docker, WibiData, SRI International, Arch Rock, SAIC, Colorado School of Mines, Cloudera, Metcalf Advising

Projects

Changelog Generator - GitHub Action

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Education

About

Achievements

I was at Docker for six years. I built the technical sales team from 0 to 36 over the course of three years. I helped build the sales and customer success teams from 4 to 200. After Docker sold the enterprise business I stayed on to lead cloud strategy. I rebooted our partnerships with Amazon, Microsoft and GitHub. I lead the teams that built AWS and Azure directly into the Docker CLI.

I also led the community effort on those features.

I got to play Minecraft with Scott Hanselman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D8FTi-Zvt0

I helped launch Docker's YouTube channel to highlight what we were doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGFJaumrKM

I built relationships across the clouds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAkgr9-u9v4&t=0s

There are not many folks that have the skillset I do. I have been a developer, built several OSS distros, built a datacenter, run infra, worked both sales & sales engineering, launched strategic product partnerships with AWS, MSFT, and GitHub.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Infrastructure AWS Docker Microsoft Azure Kubernetes

Chad Metcalf

Startup advisor. Formerly, Chief Architect of Strategy @ Docker. Cloudera, Puppet, WibiData alumni. Sitting at the intersection of OSS, GTM, and Cloud.