Paul Williamson has a diverse work experience, primarily in the field of cloud architecture and DevOps. Paul started working at Fujitsu UK in 2010, where they held various roles such as Senior Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Architect - NSX, and Technical Lead - Shared Cloud Platform. During their time at Fujitsu UK, Paul was responsible for delivering infrastructure and developing add-on services for private cloud platforms, implementing automation solutions, and managing the design and development of a shared cloud platform.
In 2020, they joined Equal Experts as a Dev Ops Technical Lead, and in 2022, they became a DevOps Tech Lead. While at Equal Experts, Paul's responsibilities include leading the DevOps team and ensuring the successful delivery of project requirements.
Their notable achievements include receiving a Fujitsu Gold Award for their contributions to building infrastructure and applications in a highly complex and secure environment, as well as successfully re-platforming internal toolsets onto AWS for the Fujitsu Innovation team. Paul has expertise in technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS, VMware NSX, Puppet Enterprise, and VMware vRealize Resource Orchestrator.
Paul Williamson attended Stockport College where they obtained the ONC, HNC & HND degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. In addition to their formal education, they have earned several certifications including "Learn Ansible by Doing" from Linux Academy in December 2020, "AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional" from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in February 2020, and "AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate" from AWS in May 2019. Paul also pursued a certification in "Deploying to AWS with Terraform and Ansible" from Linux Academy, although the specific completion date is not provided.
October, 2022 - present