Summary
Bill Johnson is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building cloud-native systems and leading high-performing teams across startups and tech giants. Currently Director of Engineering at Read AI in Seattle, he has held senior roles at Amazon and Microsoft where he drove site reliability, Azure Kubernetes Service, and web experiences at scale. He blends product-focused engineering with sustainability advocacy, having chaired a Green Software Foundation project to catalogue emissions-reducing software patterns. Bill’s background spans mobile location services to cloud UI and SRE, giving him deep cross-stack expertise from frontend experience to distributed infrastructure. Known for translating complex operational challenges into pragmatic, scalable solutions, he excels at aligning engineering execution with business and sustainability goals. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and brings a track record of shepherding technologies through acquisition and large-scale productionization.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Michigan