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Kristopher Williams

A concise record of projects, roles, education, and the technical range behind my current work.

Mukilteo, Washingtonkristopher.williams@fastmail.com

Profile

I turn ambiguous ideas into durable working systems. My work spans long-running academic platforms, production cloud infrastructure, independent software, and physical interfaces, with a particular strength for connecting technical structure, human context, and real-world usefulness.

Selected work

Independent engineer, artist & systems builder

Founder, Drifting Forms LLC · Atlas · Pageprint · Page Push

2025–present

Building an independent practice across software, systems, physical interfaces, and studio work.

  • Build and operate Atlas, an evolving local-first personal system I use to give records, signals, and ideas durable addresses, provenance, search, and useful interfaces.
  • Published Page Push, a privacy-oriented Chrome extension that sends page context directly to a user-chosen HTTPS endpoint.
  • Build physical-computing experiments that join cameras, projectors, sensors, radio, lighting, and software into playful, practical interactions.
  • Develop art and products through Drifting Forms, connecting creative practice with small-business operations.

Software Engineer — Azure VMware Solution

Microsoft

May 2019–January 2025

  • Built and maintained portions of the Azure VMware Solution control plane, with work spanning networking provisioning, reliability, performance, diagnostics, and production support.

Computer Science Consultant

GENI / GENI-Science / GENI-ACT · Seattle Pacific University and academic collaborators · public project archive

2010–2022

Long-running academic software collaboration, concurrent with later full-time roles.

  • Collaborated with faculty researchers to develop and sustain genomics education platforms supporting classroom instruction and independent student research.
  • Designed and maintained Ruby on Rails applications and relational databases; resolved user-facing defects, improved configuration and deployment workflows, moved development into GitHub, and delivered beta and production releases.
  • Managed database and instructional infrastructure and helped consolidate GENI-Science and GENI-ACT resources within NSF-supported, multi-institution academic initiatives.

Senior Software Engineer

Cerner, now Oracle Health

Jul 2012–May 2019

  • Developed healthcare software, including work in the clinical workflow context around CareCompass.
  • Built tools and integrations in an environment where software quality directly supported the work of healthcare professionals.

Range

Before and between software roles, I worked as a computer lab assistant, a dock hand at Elliott Bay Marina, and during college summers for Trident Seafoods in Alaska. That range still shapes how I approach engineering: understand the environment, respect the people doing the work, and make the system useful outside the diagram.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Seattle Pacific University · Winter 2012 · Minor in Computer Engineering

Strengths

Distributed systemsCloud infrastructureAPIs & integrationsReliability & operationsLocal-first softwareAI-directed prototypingProduct prototypingPhysical computing

Current interests

Current work centers on independent products, Atlas, physical computing, and collaborations where technical structure can help make an unusual idea real.