Bill Potter Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, US

• Manage a team of 26 engineers, data scientists and managers
• Measure and drive continuous improvements to hardware quality KPIs
• Building software systems and processes that monitor, detect and remediate hardware, firmware and driver issues in OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, our ‘next-gen’ cloud)
• Implemented pipelines, data lake and analytics environment that captures and enables analysis and action on relevant hardware telemetry from our cloud fleet
• Implementing ML models for predictive analytics of imminent hardware failure, enabling increased object durability (Object Store) and reduced customer impact of server failure (Compute)

Austin, Texas, US

• Grew team from 4 to 36 software and hardware engineers and managers
• Created next-gen RoT (Root of Trust) now embedded on all Oracle server motherboards
• Created designs for third-gen cloud-optimized OCI server platforms rolling out now
• Completed NPI (New Product Introduction) for all second-gen cloud server platforms

Austin, Texas, US

• Grew team from 0 to 56 software engineers, network and data center sourcing specialists, analysts and managers
• Created first gen virtual machine manager and control plane
• Created infrastructure and data center inventory management system
• Created region build automation and processes, owned and drove launch of first two OCI regions in PHX and IAD
• Completed NPI for all first-gen cloud server platforms
• Created first and second generation demand forecasting systems, interfaces to supply chain org

Seattle, WA, US

• Grew team from 4 to 18 software engineers and managers
• Delivered multiple generations of EC2 VM products that broke new ground in many areas, including m3, c3, r3, g2, hs1, i2 and t2
• Quintupled rate of innovation (new instance types) and doubled rate of cost reduction while improving quality in multiple dimensions; further reduced new platform cycle time from 6 to 3.5 months
• Owned the kernel and hypervisor used throughout Amazon and AWS, including operations on the entirety of Amazon’s server fleet – one of the world’s largest

Seattle, WA, US

• Increased fleet utilization 30% by leading cross-org effort that analyzed, instrumented and improved server lifecycle management, saving more than $1B/yr at the time
• Reduced new server platform cycle time from 19 months to 6 months
• Pioneered the industry’s first “early ship” of a new platform with cc2, bringing Sandybridge to the cloud four months prior to Intel’s public launch; this has now become standard practice

• Led 120 person team of full-time and contract staff building the front and back office replacement systems for all service and financial management systems at TrueBlue Inc.
• Led multiple initiatives (2-30 people) at Russell and several other NW financial services firms, ranging from capabilities assessments, portfolio management, new application development, and data warehousing

Ba, Music Composition, Technology & Business

Education record