Bill Monkman
Technical Advisor at Map Labs
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 (124)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
commitdev/terraform-aws-zero
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Zero modules for the AWS EKS Stack
Contributions:2 releases, 106 reviews, 84 commits in 2 years 4 months
zeroekskubernetesaws-eksaws
commitdev/zero-backend-go
Apr 2020 - May 2022
A zero module containing a backend that can be deployed to the infrastructure set up using zero-aws-eks-stack
Contributions:1 release, 86 reviews, 44 commits in 2 years
golangmodule-zerozerodevopsinfrastructure
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