$ whoami

Kyle Williams

Principal Engineer — Kubernetes & OpenShift Virtualization

29 years in enterprise infrastructure. Now building the migration path off legacy virtualization — VMware, RHV — onto KubeVirt.

$ ls -la ./portfolio
$ cat k8s-governance-controller/README.md

The Single Thread

A production-grade Kubernetes governance framework: a Go admission webhook paired with a three-tier Kyverno policy layer, including KubeVirt-specific VM policies, full Prometheus/Grafana observability with formal SLOs, and a measured 39% FinOps efficiency gain via Kubecost.

go · kyverno · kubevirt · prometheus · kubecost

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$ cat eso-vault-lab/README.md

ESO / Vault Lab

A from-scratch External Secrets Operator and Vault integration, documenting the trust chain failure modes most walkthroughs skip — including a breaking API change in ESO v2.x that none of the tutorials mention.

external-secrets · vault · kubernetes

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$ cat writing/index.md

Field Notes

Writing on infrastructure history and the operational boundary between enterprise virtualization and cloud-native — including "From ulimits to Admission Controllers," on resource governance as a thirty-year-old discipline.

medium · @kyle-williams-systems

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