William Holroyd
Site Reliability Engineering Manager - Assured Workloads Regulated Cloud
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Holroyd is a Site Reliability Engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling multi-datacenter online services, now managing Assured Workloads for regulated cloud at Google. He combines deep Microsoft-era engineering roots with modern cloud-native practices—driving large Kubernetes migrations, multiregion active-active architectures, and observability standardization across global teams. At Lenovo he delivered dramatic performance and cost improvements (13x throughput, 92% latency reduction, $750k/year savings) and founded a DevOps Center of Excellence that standardized tooling and IaC across a $12.9M cloud portfolio. A pragmatic technologist and people leader, he pairs hands-on platform architecture with program-building skills (CSW University, regional SIGs) and a track record of aligning security, compliance and scalability for device-heavy ecosystems. Notably, he has transitioned legacy datacenters to cloud-equivalent platforms (VMware Tanzu) while influencing AI strategy as an AI Solutions Architect.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mercer Island High School
Spanish, Dutch, English
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Github Skills (113)
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loops10
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ansible-module10
dotnet10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wholroyd/ciscolistener
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
Utility to listen for Cisco Smart Call Home enabled device messages
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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wholroyd/docker-images
Aug 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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