Summary
Bill Chapman is a seasoned engineering executive and player-coach with 14 years of experience leading cloud-native, SRE, and platform engineering transformations across government and enterprise. As Director of Engineering in the VA Office of the CTO he’s built reliability-first programs and restructured platform teams to support VA.gov at scale, drawing on prior US Digital Service roles advising the Executive Office of the President. He blends hands-on technical judgment with servant leadership—supporting 50+ mixed federal and contractor teams—and has founded consultancies that modernized delivery for healthcare and commercial clients. Comfortable traveling anywhere, he pairs deep technical program design with an emphasis on developer experience and pragmatic team enablement. A mathematician by training, he also brings a creative streak—plays piano and ukulele and approaches engineering with a builder’s curiosity.
14 years of coding experience