Michael Williams
Infrastructure & Cloud Lead at Nightwing
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Williams is a technical operations leader with 15 years of hands-on experience architecting and running secure, multi-boundary infrastructure for DoD and commercial programs. Currently a Technical Operations Manager at Leidos, he has led cross-functional DevOps and infrastructure teams, managed multimillion-dollar IT budgets, and delivered cloud-first modernization across disconnected and classified networks. He combines systems administration, cyber engineering, and automation expertise—frequently using Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ceph, and Proxmox—to maintain resilient, geographically distributed services. Notably, his home lab mirrors enterprise practices (Kubernetes with dynamic storage, BGP-ingress, automated certs and SSO/MFA) and informs practical, production-ready designs. A strong customer-facing communicator, he excels at translating complex compartmentalization and cybersecurity requirements into operational solutions that keep mission-critical systems available and auditable.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSECE, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSECE, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (56)
dms10
pdf10
secrets10
vault10
ansible-role10
document-management9
optical-character-recognition9
hashicorp-vault9
archiving9
security9
django9
ocr9
encryption9
access-management8
angular8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spacex/kernel-centos5
Sep 2010 - Nov 2011
Contributions:59 commits in 1 year 2 months
spacex/kernel-centos7
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 branch in 1 day
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