Ron Williams
Director, Cloud Adoption & Infrastructure Optimization - IT Modernization Centers Of Excellence
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolRon Williams is a cloud and infrastructure leader with 11 years of experience driving IT modernization, consolidation, and site reliability across federal agencies. He currently directs Cloud Adoption & Infrastructure Optimization in GSA's IT Modernization Centers of Excellence, after leading and scaling the Cloud.gov program. A longtime open source evangelist and organizer, Ron has built containerized production platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and introduced Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD to reduce deployments from months to minutes and cut millions in annual costs. He advised agency CIOs on cloud strategy and implemented NIST 800-53 controls for FISMA Moderate ATOs, demonstrating both technical depth and compliance fluency. A frequent presenter at SaltConf, DrupalCon and GovCon, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic planning and public-sector transformation experience. Based in Washington, DC, he quietly sustains multiple open-source projects that underpin high-traffic government sites handling hundreds of millions of monthly requests.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associates (incomplete), General Studies, Associates (incomplete), General Studies at Wor-Wic Community College
English
Github Skills (64)
docker10
rancher10
container9
cloud-foundry9
container-management9
kubernetes9
infrastructure-management9
python9
grav-plugin9
grav9
cattle9
orchestration9
infrastructure9
pcf9
remote-execution8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
usda-ocio-eas/gov-drupal
Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:52 PRs, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
usda-ocio-eas/gov-drupal-dev
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years
govdevdockerdrupaldocker-container
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