Jonathan Donaldson
About
Jonathan Donaldson is from Portland, Oregon, United States. Jonathan works in the following industries: "Information Technology and Services". Jonathan is currently Sr. Engineering Director, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud at Google, located in Mountain View, California. In Jonathan's previous role as a Platinum and Founding Member, Board of Directors at Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Jonathan worked in until Feb 2017. Prior to joining Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Jonathan was a Vice President and GM, Software Defined Infrastructure at Intel Corporation and held the position of Vice President and GM, Software Defined Infrastructure at Hillsboro, OR. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Founder and Platinum Board Member at Cloud Foundry Foundation from Mar 2014 to Dec 2015. Jonathan started working as Sr. Director, Engineering at VCE in Jul 2010. From Feb 2010 to Jan 2011, Jonathan was Director, Solutions Engineering at EMC. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Sr. Manager, Infrastructure and Cloud at NetApp from Aug 2008 to Feb 2010. Jonathan started working as Sr. Manager, Engineering and Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc. in Jan 1998.
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Jonathan Donaldson's current jobs
Helping Google Cloud strengthen our products for Enterprise Customers, and helping Enterprise Customers transform to 'cloud first' operations. Heavily involved with all things related to application modernization; Anthos, Kubernetes, GKE, Istio and how to shift to these technologies.
Jonathan Donaldson's past jobs
Co-founder and Member of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation https://www.cncf.io
Leading a strategic cross-company effort to build Software Defined Infrastructure products and ecosystem based on intelligent orchestration, scheduling, virtualization, containers, and leading edge technologies. Managing a 300+ person team of highly skilled developers, product managers, architects, and operators to drive innovation in advanced schedulers such as Kubernetes and Apache Mesos, as well as full Private Cloud Stacks (OpenStack, VMware, and Microsoft) Responsible for driving $1B+ in annual revenue through the Intel Cloud For All program Lead hundreds of millions in investments in startups and new technologies. Co-founder of Open Container Initiative and Cloud Native Compute Foundation.
Initial co-founder and Platinum Board member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation during the formation and first years.
Curated and lead a team of 100+ Engineers and support staff at a joint venture of Cisco, VMware, EMC, and Intel. The team focused on defining and developing requirements for the Vblock Converged Infrastructure Platform, Software Defined Data Center, Networks (SDN), and Storage (SDS). Additionally, tasked with helping customers best utilize these technologies with applications such as Oracle, Microsoft, Hadoop, and other emerging and legacy applications. Heavy focus on automation, orchestration, security, process management, and customer requirements. Helped lead VCE from $0 to over $1.3B in annual revenue
Initially joined EMC to drive the V + C + E reference architecture into Service Providers, Service Integrators, and Federal government. Brought over into Acadia to drive the transition into VCE. Lead engineering efforts for SP/SI/Federal, and Vertical customers.
Lead team of Technical Engineers focused on developing cloud and infrastructure as a service architectures for customers and partners. Helped create the FlexPod/Secure Multi-tenancy reference architecture and strategy with Cisco and VMWare around private, public, and hybrid clouds.
Lead team of Technical Marketing Engineers and product managers focused on developing Enterprise Architectures for the Data Center, Branch, WAN, and Campus. Worked closely with large enterprise customers, business units, and field sales to develop repeatable network and service architectures that solve customer problems. Developed a go-to-market plan for solutions delivery that returned 500+ mil in sales. Engineer and Manager for two Cisco spin-outs, Andiamo, and Linksys One. Started my Cisco career as a Federal Systems Engineer delivering pre- and post-sales support for the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, State Department and various other government agencies located in EMEA.
Helped design and install first deployment of RoadRunner, Time Warner’s ISP. Became Cabletron's first Federal SE in Europe, covering all of EMEA where I provided pre- and post-sales support for the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, State Department and various other government agencies
Part of a team of IT staff focused on keeping a rapidly growing company’s daily operations running smoothly
Lead a team of internal and vendor developers and testers to define, design, and implement the banks next generation operations and client systems