William Collins
Director, Technical Evangelism at The Cloud Gambit
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Collins is a cloud and networking strategist with nine years focused on accelerating enterprise cloud adoption through pragmatic design, automation, and measurable outcomes. As Director of Technical Evangelism and founder/host of The Cloud Gambit podcast, he blends hands-on architecture experience with public-facing education to demystify multi-cloud, hybrid, and NetDevOps transformations. He has led large-scale network modernization and cloud tenancy redesigns at organizations like Humana and Marsh & McLennan, driving availability, resilience, and a shift from project delivery to product-platform thinking. Comfortable with IaaS/CaaS/PaaS/SaaS, Terraform and Ansible at scale, and network paradigms like NFV/SDN/SD‑WAN, he’s equally skilled at translating technical tradeoffs for executive stakeholders. Based in Louisville, he combines practitioner rigor with storytelling—helping teams move faster to market while reducing time-to-value.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Prosser Career Education Center
Stackoverflow
21reputation
550reached
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Github Skills (27)
shortcode10
hugo9
hugo-theme9
hexo8
netlify8
terraform6
vnet5
tflint5
vpc5
gcp4
aws4
ansible3
yaml3
azure3
networking2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alkiranet/terraform-alkira-baseline
Sep 2022 - Jan 2024
This module creates various resources in Alkira from .yaml files
Contributions:11 releases, 82 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 3 months
terraform-modulesymlterraformyml-filesalkira
wcollins/ansible-cloud-ipam
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
AnsibleFest 2020 - Automating IPAM in Cloud
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
ipamansibleautomation
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