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Craig D Wilhite has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Craig D is currently working at Upbound as a Staff Product Manager, where they are responsible for building Upbound's commercial SaaS offering. This platform helps organizations in authoring, deploying, and maintaining their own internal cloud platforms.
Prior to their current role, Craig worked at Microsoft as a Senior Product Manager and Program Manager. As a Senior Product Manager, they led the Azure Container OS and Runtime team, driving the GA containerd support for Windows customers on AKS. Craig D also played a key role in building and delivering technologies used in various container experiences in Azure. Additionally, they worked across Azure Core Compute, Networking, and Storage to develop the next-generation Azure Core infrastructure focused on delivering container-first and multi-tenant support.
During their tenure as a Program Manager at Microsoft, Craig partnered with Azure and Silicon teams to deliver GPU partitioning, worked on device virtualization capabilities for Windows Server containers, and improved developer VM experience in Hyper-V.
Before joining Microsoft, Craig served as the Chief Technology Officer at brightlamp, LLC, a computational medicine startup. Craig D built the entire software stack for their product, including the frontend for Android and backend on AWS.
Craig also has experience working at Purdue University as a Staff Resident and Resident Assistant, where they supervised and mentored a staff of RAs and facilitated growth of community among residents.
Early in their career, Craig worked as a Software Engineer at GE Aviation, where they supported cost estimation tools for individual engines and developed prototype tools for managing identification numbers associated with parts and assemblies.
Overall, Craig D Wilhite has a strong background in product management, program management, and software engineering, with a focus on cloud platforms, containers, and virtualization technologies.
Craig D Wilhite attended Purdue University from 2013 to 2017, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
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Upbound is the company behind open source Crossplane - the modern, cloud-native alternative to Infrastructure as Code. Crossplane was the first open source project to recognize Kubernetes for its control plane, and not as a container orchestrator, and has been leading the effort to democratize control plane technology in the cloud-native community. Our mission is to enable a new era of infrastructure management that is automated, efficient, reliable and empowers application teams to self-service any resource they need and deliver software faster.