William Oliveira
Vice President, Platform
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Oliveira is a seasoned platform and product leader with 12 years of experience building scalable cloud and AI infrastructure across enterprises like Apple, GM, Red Hat, and Pivotal. Currently VP of Platform at webAI, he has led multi-year roadmaps for developer-facing cloud services—spanning Kubernetes, VM compute, object storage, and developer portals—while improving cross-organizational collaboration between engineering and SRE teams. His background blends hands-on systems and middleware engineering (from Oracle, IBM, BEA) with product strategy for serverless, service mesh, and data-grid solutions, enabling reliable production adoption and faster release cadence. William pairs technical depth—having defined reference architectures for deep learning and HPC/GPU workloads—with business acumen sharpened by executive education at McCombs and MIT Sloan. Known for turning complex distributed systems into developer-friendly products, he also has a track record of driving open-source-friendly strategies and field enablement that accelerate market fit. Based in Austin, he thrives at the intersection of platform engineering, product leadership, and cross-functional execution.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Texas McCombs School of BusinessExecutive Certificate in Management and Leadership Business/Managerial Economics, Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership Business/Managerial Economics at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBachelor's Degree Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Sciences General at Faculdade Politécnica de Campinas (Policamp)Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Universidade Paulista
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (64)
spark-ml10
apache10
java10
specification10
serverless10
datagrid10
geode10
network-server10
accumulo10
nosql9
javascript9
spark9
scala9
inference-engine9
cloudevents9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
markito/geode-docker
May 2015 - Sep 2018
Apache Geode (incubating) Dockerfile
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 years 3 months
dockerfilegeodedockercompose
markito/knative-ansible
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
A sample of using Knative and Ansible to create event-driven playbooks.
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
ansibleevent-drivenknative
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