William Crum
Solutions Architect at Kairos
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Crum is a Solutions Architect and seasoned developer with eight years of experience building software and machine learning solutions for Department of Defense customers and cloud-native environments. Based in Golden, Colorado, he blends hands-on engineering—from writing ML models and custom software while deployed with the Marines to contributing Kubernetes-focused open source—with customer-facing roles that shape product direction. He’s held technical and leadership roles across organizations like Spectro Cloud, Defense Unicorns, the Marine Innovation Unit, and the Defense Digital Service, proving an ability to move prototypes into operational use at the tactical edge. An active community builder, he co-chairs the CNCF Public Sector User Group and serves on AFCEA’s Emerging Leaders Committee, bringing public-sector perspective to cloud-native practice. Outside work he’s a backpacker and self-described “nerd,” a profile that mirrors his pragmatic, field-tested approach to resilient systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Conifer Senior High SchoolRed Rocks Community College
Github Skills (108)
vertex10
coders10
hoppscotch10
kubernetes-cluster10
palette10
knife10
code-documentation10
parsing10
cluster-api10
marine9
military9
validation9
provisioning9
containerd9
cli9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
wcrum/is-it-down
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Fullstack Multi-Threaded Python Application Intended to Show Live Statuses of Domains.
Contributions:47 commits, 9 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 months
full-stackpythongovernmentmilitarypython3
marinecoders/mcswf
Oct 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 release, 20 reviews, 26 PRs in 9 months
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