Craig Hunter Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

I currently lead the Developer Foundation, a large globally distributed team with accountability to build common experiences and primitives that host 90% of HEREs revenue generating world class products.Working across the organization, and generating strong trust based relationships I drive HEREs platform engineering efforts. Our vision is to accelerate developer effectiveness by automating non-differentiated work and creating programmatic guidelines to ensure that HEREs compliance, security and non-functional requirements are metI have fiscal responsibility for a large multi-million cost center.During my tenure I have driven execution of multiple strategic initiatives to improve HERE's engineering efficiencies with substantial successful outcomes.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

Leader of HERE's Developer Tools & Services function, a large team providing Developer focused solutions to empower HERE's engineering teams to focus on differentiated solutions. Provide a holistic SCM, observability & vulnerability management solution for a unified dev experience via consistent portals and CLIs.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

As a technical leader at HMH I work with tremendously talented Engineers, SREs and technical staff at HMH to deliver our next generation Kubernetes (k8s) platform, whilst simultaneously applying FinOps patterns to drive innovation and reduce our fiscal position. Achievements - Reduced YonY vendor spend by 20%Created multiple fiscal governance programsEnsured HMH Technical Solution Group Engineering teams remain within CloudOps budget of $7.5MDelivered a viable K8s hosting platform capable of running HMH's complex portfolio of Spring Boot & Node.js microservicesSolution built upon AWS core services such as AWS EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, Elasticache, S3 services, and core foundational services such as Kafka, Apache Spark, Mesos, Aurora. System secured by the use of Hashicorp Consul, & Vault systems, with Terraform as our IAAC backbone.DataDog integration serves as our telemetry engine.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

As leader of Akamai's Developer Productivity team, I am responsible for the day to day experience of Akamai's engineering community, a population of over 3000 technical staff. During my tenure I have revitalized Akamai’s Developer systems. Highlights include : • Influenced Executive leadership across Akamai to invest in a multi-year program to improve our developers day to day experience. Savings demonstrated at $5M/Year.• Created flexible architectures, based on containers and globally distributed infrastructure,• Migrated from a physical on prem single site (Quincy, WA) lab infrastructure to a cloud based solution, saving hosting & maintenance costs from 100+ servers.• Reduced unplanned outages from twelve a year to zero.• Reduced build times from hours to minutes for 95% of components.• Defined best practices, standard policies and procedures.• Established Governance bodies to represent the needs across the business.• Scaled Akamai’s Atlassian infrastructure from a single VM, to a world class suite of tools to handle internal use of 160M hits/month.• Promoted direct reports multiple occasions.• Grew team from 14 to 63 talented individuals across 3 centers of excellence.This is a complex and exciting role, which relies heavily on building trust based relationships and working horizontally across Akamai to balance and trade off differing organizations backlogs and priorities. I am accountable for Akamai's Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including SourceCode Management Systems, Technical Collaboration Systems, and centralized Build and Testing infrastructure. I am a regular presenter to Akamai's senior executives.Technology stack most recently includes - Java, Python, Docker/Containers, SAAS, IAAS, PAAS, Jenkins, SDLC, Perforce, Artifactory, Blackduck, Kubernetes, AWS service concepts & the Atlassian suite of products.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Overall responsibility for the Microsoft Mobile AppStore which served 6 Billion global downloads/Yr from 80M monthly consumers and the Microsoft Mobile Commerce platform which supported 160+ operator connections and credit card connections in 200+ markets. • Defined and implemented the technical strategy for transitioning the Microsoft mobile AppStore to Microsoft partners. • Led a team of 100 engineers, product & program managers, testers and vendors • Set goals and held team accountable for the execution of the strategy• Distributed application updates to over one billion in-field consumers.• Transition completed 9 months ahead of schedule.Budgetary authority over multiple vendor accounts totalling $12M/Yr.Day to day management of the Java based AppStore and Commerce services.Introduced realtime DevOps monitoring and graphing solutions using Docker, Elasticsearch and LogStash Forwarder components. Visualisation performed using Graphite.Prototyped potential Windows 10 purchase experiences using Java 8 services and Two-Factor authentication.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for building and maintaining a highly skilled team of 50 engineers, product owners and vendors to manage the entire lifecycle of products from design and development to testing and deployment of services to support the discovery and engagement with apps across Nokia devices.On time and on budget delivery of multiple mobile applications across a broad range of devices and ecosystems.Achievements• Migration of a consumer based Discovery app to a Social experience including Facebook & Twitter integrations.• Implementation of a Continuous deployment model for mobile applications delivered across WindowsPhone, Android & S40 mobile ecosystems. Reduced delivery times from 3 months to 4 weeks.• Improved predictability of Roadmap and Backlog estimation processes by 50%. • Creation of an Innovation and Concepting program.• Improved API service quality by introducing continuous integration techniques utilising Jenkins and automated testing.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Responsible for leading agile development teams within the Nokia Entertainment services organisation. Experience of software delivery leveraging Agile software development practices, specifically Kanban and Scrum. Solid line management of 20 engineers. Extensive experience of working with large diverse and geographically distributed multinational teams.• Multiple on-time deliveries, including a DayOne launch, of the Windows Phone 8 Nokia Music App. • Migrated the Service platform from .Net to Java.• Managed the migration of 9 million user accounts across 20 territories from Nokia Music 2x to Ovi Music 3.0.• Increased Nokia’s OviStore daily downloads by 30%.• Introduced CrossBrowser Automated testing to OviStore platform using Selenium

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Senior resource within the SIB development team, collaborated on a SOA redesign of the Music Store with Microsoft MVC, LINQ and restful WCF services.Responsibilities: Development of the Nokia Music Store. Desktop client viewDevelopment of the Nokia Music Store. Mobile devices viewDesign and implementation of the Nokia’s PIN promotional engine.Agile stream lead within the “Comes With Music” programme.Design and implementation of the “Comes with Music” single code base globalization platformDaily triage and strategic management of defects.