Craig Ballinger
VP Product at Valid8 Financial
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorCraig Ballinger is a VP of Product and seasoned software executive with 14 years of experience building product strategy, data-driven decisioning, and user-centered experiences from Seattle. He blends hands-on engineering chops with senior product leadership—having contributed backend internationalization and security improvements to notable open-source projects like Cachet—so he speaks both code and strategy fluently. At Valid8 Financial he leads cross-functional teams to translate complex regulatory and data requirements into practical, user-focused products. Known for pairing strategic planning with measurable outcomes, he excels at turning analytics and UX insight into roadmap priorities that move metrics.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
internationalization10
php10
localization10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
object-cache9
web-cache9
memory-cache9
databases8
database8
status-page7
self-hosting7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cachethq/cachet
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
🚦 Cachet, the open-source, self-hosted status page system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Craig focused on updating the application to support translations, modifying hardcoded strings across multiple files, and introducing internationalization features. They updated the threshold input name to match the model and also resolved an accessibility label issue within the metric edit form. Furthermore, the user implemented signed URLs for redirects and routes related to the subscriber management section, enhancing security.
cachetphpstatuspageweb-applicationstatus
craigballinger/EchoSign-PHP-API-Wrapper
Jul 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 9 months
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