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J. Scott Williams

Head Of Infrastructure at Entefy

J. Scott Williams has a strong and diverse work experience in the technology industry. J. Scott started their career at @Home Network as a Manager of Edge Server Engineering, where they grew a team responsible for the management and deployment of a large distributed network of broadband caching servers. J. Scott also led the transition to x86/Linux based systems.

After @Home Network, Williams joined Excite@Home Network as a Manager of Edge Server Engineering. In this role, they continued to lead a team and was responsible for server engineering, development, deployment, and management. J. Scott also implemented hardware solutions and streamlined the edge server infrastructure.

Williams then moved to eBay and PayPal, where they served as a Manager of Performance Engineering & Capacity Planning. J. Scott built a high-performing team dedicated to capacity planning and performance engineering for site infrastructure. J. Scott also implemented scalable capacity management systems and developed various performance models and reporting systems.

Following eBay and PayPal, Williams worked at PayPal as a Manager of Performance Engineering & Capacity Planning. In this role, they decentralized the performance engineering and capacity planning teams. J. Scott grew a talented team to support PayPal Operations and Product Development infrastructure.

Williams then joined Websense as a Senior Manager of Hosted Performance Engineering. J. Scott established the company's first-ever Performance Engineering team and led efforts in developing capacity models for their hybrid on-premise/hosted web filtering offering.

After Websense, Williams worked at Microsoft as a part of the Enterprise/Performance/Capacity Management team. J. Scott evangelized and implemented various next-gen Enterprise Management and Service Health systems. J. Scott also developed performance and capacity models for Microsoft's platforms.

Williams then joined Yahoo! as a Director of Data Delivery and Architecture Lead. J. Scott led various service engineering architecture efforts and drove performance management efforts for Yahoo's revenue-bearing pipelines. J. Scott also led infrastructure capacity planning and transition efforts towards an infrastructure-as-a-service model.

At Yahoo!, Williams also served as a Director of Capacity Planning. J. Scott led the company's central infrastructure capacity planning endeavors and implemented technology transition efforts.

Williams then moved to [24]7, where they held various roles. J. Scott served as the Director of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, where they were responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of [24]7.ai's Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. J. Scott also served as the Acting Global VP of Infrastructure and Cloud Operations.

Currently, Williams is working at Entefy as the Head Of Infrastructure. Entefy is an AI software company specializing in machine learning. Williams is responsible for leading and managing the infrastructure at Entefy.

Overall, Williams has extensive experience in infrastructure management, performance engineering, capacity planning, and cloud infrastructure.

J. Scott Williams attended Arizona State University where they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Business/Computer Information Systems. No specific start or end year for their education at this institution is mentioned.

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Timeline

  • Head Of Infrastructure

    January, 2018 - present

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