William Johnson
Cloud Network Engineer II at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Johnson is a Cloud Network Engineer II based in New York with a decade of hands-on experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale cloud and transit networks. He has progressed from customer-facing technical support roles into senior network engineering at Pilot and now operates at Microsoft, bringing practical expertise in BGP, IGPs, circuit and hardware incident response, and cloud networking nuances. William contributes to open-source observability tooling—integrating OpenLineage with Databricks and adding Delta catalog and Azure Synapse connectors—demonstrating an ability to bridge DevOps, backend development, and platform-specific automation. He’s comfortable solving credential passthrough and runtime-compatibility issues, a sign of attention to security and long-term maintainability. Trained in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, he combines analytical rigor with pragmatic network engineering. Colleagues describe him as the engineer who reliably shepherds complex integrations from script-level fixes to production-ready configurations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Natural Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (18)
spark10
databricks10
java10
data-lineage10
javas10
devops9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
aggregations6
api6
azure-purview6
sql6
azure-databricks6
apache-spark6
spss6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLineage/OpenLineage
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
An Open Standard for lineage metadata collection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:42 reviews, 10 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:William focused on integrating the OpenLineage project with Databricks, implementing scripts and configurations for uploading Spark Listener libraries and initialization scripts using the Databricks CLI. They contributed to adding arbitrary parameters to the OpenLineage URL for non-Marquez destinations. The user also added support for the Databricks Delta catalog and Azure Synapse/SQL DW connector for Databricks. Furthermore, they addressed credential passthrough issues on Azure Databricks and updated code to accommodate changes in Databricks Runtime 11.3.
data-analyticsdata-managementcqllineagemetadata-management
microsoft/Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A connector to ingest Azure Databricks lineage into Microsoft Purview
Contributions:1 release, 38 reviews, 84 commits in 7 months
databrickslineageazure-cosmos-dbazure-databricksconnector
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