William Boyd
Partner Solutions Architect at Datadog
Mount Airy, Maryland, United States
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William Boyd is a Partner Solutions Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience in DevOps and cloud engineering, now helping partners at Datadog scale observability and automation. He has driven measurable improvements—cutting CI/CD times by ~70%, boosting NIST compliance scores by ~40%, and shifting organizations from quarterly to weekly deployments—by designing IaC, self-service developer platforms, and resilient disaster-recovery automation. A former Principal Training Architect, he has created highly-rated DevOps courses and built reusable cloud lab infrastructures that trained hundreds of engineers, blending technical delivery with pedagogy. He’s led and mentored teams of engineers while remaining deeply practical in tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Ansible, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure). Based in Mount Airy, Maryland, he pairs uncommon academic rigor (MDiv and PhD-level study) with pragmatic engineering, which surfaces in his focus on reproducible developer workflows and observable systems. Colleagues describe him as a coachable leader who converts complex compliance and reliability challenges into automated, developer-friendly solutions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theology/Theological Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theology/Theological Studies at Liberty UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Liberty Unicversity
Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
linuxacademy/cicd-pipeline-train-schedule-canary
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
jenkinscanarykubernetesschedulepipelines
linuxacademy/content-cka-resources
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Will Boyd, CKA, 07.24.2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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