William Byatt
Software engineer and systems architect. Currently at Akamai, designing the next-generation cloud-native control plane.
Currently
Architect, Cloud Control Plane — Akamai Technologies
2024 — present
- Designing Akamai/Linode’s next-generation cloud-native control plane for public cloud offerings.
- Failure-domain analysis, schema evolution, and cross-region coordination.
- Optimized for deterministic updates, best-in-class resiliency, and dependency-free product delivery
Previously
Director, Software Engineering — Kaufman Rossin
2023 — 2024
- Led an AI partnership and rolled out multiple GenAI applications across the firm.
- Authored the firm’s application-development policies — code standards, SDLC, and security — and aligned formal SDLC with WISP alongside the CISO.
- Established cross-team processes spanning appdev, data, and IT, simplifying data architectures and improving BI pipelines.
- Migrated from AWS ECS to Azure AKS and moved CI/CD to GitHub Actions. Introduced deep observability with Prometheus and Grafana, and detailed FinOps practices for application and platform cost.
Engineering Manager — Kaufman Rossin
2022 — 2023
- Migrated DB clusters to AWS Aurora Serverless: 80% reduction in DB cost, P99 latency improvements.
- Stood up Kubernetes-based CDE deployment — engineers onboarded in under an hour.
- Reformed hiring and management practice. Voluntary turnover from ~25% to 0%; broader applicant pool, more diverse team composition.
Senior Software Engineer — Kaufman Rossin
2019 — 2022
- Built a confidential document delivery platform (Rails, React) handling 10,000+ tax returns per year.
- CI/CD via AWS CodePipeline. Rolled out comprehensive coverage with RSpec and Jest.
- Mentored less-experienced engineers; every mentee promoted to senior.
Earlier work
Technical Lead — CivicPro
2018 — present
- Designed a system for ingesting bulk legislative data and parsing it with GPT-3.5-turbo, originally Python/Django, later Rails and React.
- Partnered with NPR and the Miami Herald on data reporting about local government.
Senior Software Engineer — Bar None Systems
2017 — 2019
- SDLC audits, emergency project rescues, digital infrastructure for nonprofits and political campaigns.
Senior Software Engineer — Kipu Systems
2016 — 2018
- Built HIPAA- and HL7-compliant SaaS for patient data management and provider communication.
Senior Software Engineer — LocalSearch
2015
- Contract management tooling in Rails and AngularJS. RabbitMQ-backed microservices.
Software Engineer — CarePaths
2011 — 2015
- HIPAA / HL7 features. Insurer billing over HL7. Patient/clinician scheduling systems.
Tools
- Languages
- Go, Python, Ruby, JavaScript / TypeScript, Elixir
- Frameworks
- gRPC, Rails, Phoenix, Django, React / Next.js
- Data
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DuckDB
- Messaging
- Kafka, Redpanda, RabbitMQ
- Cloud
- AWS, Azure, GCP, Fly.io, Akamai / Linode
- Infrastructure
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
- Observability
- Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog
- Practices
- TDD, distributed systems design, service-oriented architecture, 12 Factor