About
We are a small team of passionate engineers looking to create the next set of innovative technologies to help companies run their applications on herds of containers that can roam across clouds. We are based in Cupertino, CA and Tempe, AZ.
Our Story
Rancher Labs is a newly-formed startup developing the next generation of cloud software. We are well-funded and are ready to disrupt the market by creating technologies that leverage some of the newest technologies like Docker. We sell our software to large and mid-size businesses who rely on us to run their mission-critical production workload. The company was started by the team behind Cloud.com, maker of the Apache CloudStack software, which was acquired by Citrix in 2011. The software we developed in the past is used by some of the largest and most successful cloud services in the world today. Nobody understands cloud technologies and the cloud market better than us. The cloud computing business opportunity is enormous and rapidly growing.
Our Leadership Team
Sheng Liang
Sheng is a co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs. Prior to starting Rancher, Sheng was CTO of the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix Systems after their acquisition of Cloud.com, where he was co-founder and CEO. Sheng has more than 15 years of experience building innovative technology. He was a co-founder at Teros, which was acquired by Citrix in 2005 and led large engineering teams at SEVEN Networks, and Openwave Systems. Sheng started his career as a Staff Engineer in Java Software at Sun Microsystems, where he designed the Java Native Interface (JNI) and led the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) development for the Java 2 platform. Sheng has a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
Shannon Williams
Shannon is a co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Rancher Labs. Prior to starting Rancher, Shannon was Vice President of Market Development at Citrix Systems, after the company acquired Cloud.com, where he led worldwide sales. He has more than 15 years of experience in developing emerging technology and has held management positions at technology companies such as Solidcore Systems (acquired by McAfee), Teros (acquired by Citrix) and Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA). Shannon is a graduate of Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Darren Shepherd
Darren is a co-founder and Chief Architect of Rancher Labs. Prior to Rancher, Darren was Sr. Principal Engineer at Citrix where he worked on CloudStack, OpenStack, Docker and building the next generation of infrastructure orchestration technology. Prior to joining Citrix, Darren worked at GoDaddy, where he designed and lead a team that implemented both public and private IaaS clouds. Darren has been writing software since he got his first 286 when he was 10, and is happiest when he’s stuffed in a closet banging away in anything but Java. Darren specializes in building systems to reliably control completely unreliable systems. Darren has a B.S. from California State University, Northridge.
Will Chan
Will is a co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Rancher Labs. Prior to Rancher, Will was Director of Engineering for the CloudPlatforms group at Citrix System after their acquisition of Cloud.com, where he held a similar position and was one of the original founding engineers. Will has over 15 years of experience of building massively scalable software for large enterprises and telcos and has held lead engineering positions at SEVEN Networks, Openwave Systems, and Cambridge Technology Partners. Will has a B.S (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley.
Contact Us
Corporate Headquarters
10050 N Wolfe Road, SWI-272
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
Rancher Labs Arizona
21 E 6th Street, #606
Tempe, AZ 85281
USA