Kevin Williams
Senior DevOps Engineer Consultant at PwC
Frederick, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Williams is a Senior DevOps Engineer Consultant with 18 years of experience building and operating internet-scale middleware and cloud-native systems, currently consulting at PwC after a stint modernizing Capital One’s core financial engine. He combines deep backend development roots—contributions to notable open-source projects like the thin Ruby web server and the RestExpress Java framework—with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Helm/Kustomize, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible and Go-based operators. A long-time Agile and eXtreme Programming practitioner, he leads developer experience and infrastructure teams while championing security best practices through roles like Security Scouts. Comfortable across OO and functional paradigms, he specializes in high-concurrency, high-availability architectures and improving developer productivity with automation and tooling. Based in Frederick, Colorado, he’s driven by problem-solving and code quality, demonstrated by rigorous bug fixes, test additions, and thoughtful refactors in his open-source work.
18 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
none engineering, none engineering at University of Colorado BoulderSalida High School
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Github Skills (19)
json10
api-rest10
netty10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
data-serialization10
java10
ruby10
serialization10
javas10
parse10
webserver10
rack10
rest-api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
macournoyer/thin
Jan 2008 - May 2008
A very fast & simple Ruby web server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `thin` web server's core functionality, including bug fixes and feature enhancements. They modified the request parsing logic, addressed code vulnerabilities, and updated the versioning information. Furthermore, the user added tests and fixed errors related to request handling, demonstrating a focus on code quality and robustness. They also made minor site updates, demonstrating a familiarity with the project's build and deploy processes.
sinatraweb-serverrailsrackruby
RestExpress/RestExpress
Oct 2010 - Feb 2014
Minimalist Java framework for rapidly creating scalable, containerless, RESTful microservices. Ship a production-quality, headless, RESTful API in the shortest time possible. Uses Netty for HTTP, Jackson for JSON, Metrics for metrics, properties files for configuration. Sub-projects and plugins enable, NoSQL, Swagger, Auth0, HAL integration, etc.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `restexpress/restexpress` repository by introducing and modifying core backend functionalities. Their work included adding a `Bootstrapper` class to streamline server setup, integrating text serialization, and refactoring the route building and exception handling mechanisms. The user also addressed issues related to content type handling within the HTTP response writer and introduced a date-handling class with Gson.
shipgrpcjax-rsproductionmicroservice
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