William Bartholomew
Director Of Public Policy, Office Of Responsible AI at Microsoft
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Bartholomew is a Director of Public Policy in Microsoft's Office of Responsible AI with 11+ years of hands-on experience building and operating software supply chains and developer platforms at scale. He combines deep technical pedigree—from leading build, CI/CD and open-source compliance teams to product-managing GitHub dependency and security features—with policy and cybersecurity strategy work that spans public- and private-sector standards efforts. Known as a “friction fighter,” he focuses on reducing developer and regulatory friction by automating legal and security workflows and shepherding cross-functional launches. He contributes to open-source tooling (notably fixes to Newman’s CLI reporter) and draws on a background that ranges from managing Azure build systems to guiding AI supply chain security. Based in the Pacific Northwest, he balances technical curiosity—tinkering with hardware and espresso—with family life, bringing both pragmatism and empathy to technical policy.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Applied Science Information Technology, Graduate Certificate in Applied Science Information Technology at Charles Sturt University
Github Skills (6)
postman10
javascript10
newman10
cli10
api-testing9
nodejs9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
postmanlabs/newman
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:William focused on improving the Newman CLI reporter's error handling and output. Their commits addressed issues where request errors were not being correctly displayed, leading to misleading or incomplete information. They added error messages and formatted them appropriately, improving the user experience. The user also made a merge and fixed the placement of format string arguments.
api-testjenkinsjson-reportnewmanhttpie
iamwillbar/dockerfiles
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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