Bill Monkman
Technical Consultant at Cedar AI Agents
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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SeniorBill Monkman is a technical consultant and distributed-systems specialist with 11 years of experience designing and scaling SaaS platforms and cloud-native infrastructure from early startups to large products. He has held senior engineering and architecture roles at Hootsuite, Bench (Bench.co), and Commit—where he led the team that built the open-source starter platform Zero—combining hands-on Go, Scala, Python, and Node.js development with Kubernetes, Terraform and Vault-based operations. Bill’s strengths are system architecture, DevOps, and mentoring engineering teams to adopt microservices, Kafka, GraphQL and secure cloud patterns across AWS and GCP. He regularly performs architecture reviews and builds internal tooling to accelerate product delivery while keeping production systems reliable at scale. Based in Vancouver, he now advises AI-focused startups and consults on agent/AI infrastructure, bringing a pragmatic blend of sysadmin instincts, networking/security awareness, and product-minded engineering. A habitual early adopter of infrastructure tooling, he’s known for turning complex distributed challenges into repeatable, production-ready blueprints.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (82)
identity10
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infrastructure10
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vault10
startup10
user-experience10
okta10
identity-management10
user-management10
totp10
data-center9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
commitdev/zero-aws-eks-stack
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
zero module for a basic AWS kubernetes stack on EKS
Contributions:2 releases, 284 reviews, 208 commits in 1 year 10 months
awskubernetes
bmonkman/PineappleScope
Jan 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:30 pushes, 7 branches, 3 comments in 8 years 6 months
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