William Cross
Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Cross is a Technical Curriculum Developer with 11 years of experience designing and managing training for distributed database systems, currently leading curriculum efforts at AWS after a multi-year tenure as Training Lead at Cockroach Labs. A physicist by training (MS/PhD), he brings a rigorous experimental mindset to technical education—translating complex distributed-systems concepts into practical, learner-centered content. He has led and grown curriculum teams, coordinated cross-functional work with training, certification, and sales, and overseen technical reviews to ensure accuracy and adoption. William’s background ranges from hands-on lab apparatus design and data-mining in academic research to building data-driven learning products at Knewton and curriculum programs at MongoDB and Cloudera. He’s based in New Jersey and is not currently seeking new opportunities, focusing instead on scaling developer education at cloud-native organizations. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to blend deep research rigor with pragmatic instructional design, making advanced topics accessible to engineers and customers alike.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
11reputation
159reached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (51)
cockroachdb10
arangodb10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
mongoose9
distributed-systems9
go9
documentation9
distributed-database9
cloud-native8
kubernetes8
mongodb6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thatnerd/in-60-seconds
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
GitPitch In 60 Seconds - A Very Short Tutorial
Contributions:65 pushes in 1 day
pythongitpitchshort
thatnerd/data-science-from-scratch-work
Jul 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
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