William Polinchak is a senior software engineer based in Atlanta with over two decades of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior roles, specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and GitOps. He has driven platform reliability and automation across telecom and retail at Windstream and Publix, implementing multi-tenant AKS clusters, Rancher integrations, Istio/OPA security, and ArgoCD demos that reflect a pragmatic GitOps focus. His background spans embedded avionics at Lockheed Martin to founding an Android app startup, giving him uncommon breadth from low-level real-time systems to modern microservices and CI/CD pipelines. A proven architect and mentor, he introduced containerization and continuous delivery practices at EarthLink and led Helm/Chart Museum and monitoring stacks at Windstream, blending developer productivity with operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Aviation Computer Science, BS, Aviation Computer Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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William Polinchak - Sr. Software Engineer at Publix Super Markets