William Morgan
Host at Buoyant, Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Morgan is a veteran software leader and CEO with 17 years building large-scale infrastructure and developer-friendly cloud-native tooling, best known as a driving force behind Linkerd and Buoyant. Based in Austin, he blends hands-on engineering and product leadership—previously shipping core features at Twitter and helping bootstrap ad tech and search teams—while steering Linkerd to CNCF graduation. He hosts The AI Kubernetes Show, unpacking how AI changes Kubernetes platforms and team culture, and is a frequent public speaker and "talky person" for the Linkerd community. William also contributes technical writing to the Linkerd website, improving onboarding, protocol docs, and navigation to make service mesh tech more approachable. His background in NLP research and stats-informed engineering underpins a pragmatic, evidence-driven approach to distributed systems and developer experience.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
75 Justice Mahomed St, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
, 75 Justice Mahomed St, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
at Waterkloof House Preparatory SchoolThomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBS, Computer science, cognitive science, BS, Computer science, cognitive science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS, Computer science, MS, Computer science at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
service-mesh10
content-management-system10
content-management10
linkerd10
documentation10
html9
hugo8
css7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
linkerd/website
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Source code for the linkerd.io website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:237 reviews, 148 commits, 303 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Linkerd website. Their contributions include updates to landing page messaging, tweaks to the getting started guide, restructuring content around protocol support, and removing deprecated content. They also made significant changes to the site's navigation and content structure. This user's work was focused on making the website more user-friendly and organized.
kuberneteslinkerdservice-mesh
wmorgan/turnsole
Apr 2011 - Apr 2012
Curses client for Heliotrope
Contributions:202 commits in 1 year
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