Craig Bender
Distinguished Field Software Engineer at Canonical Ltd.
Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Bender is a Distinguished Field Software Engineer with over two decades of experience spanning data center operations, VDI/SBC, product management, and software-defined storage. He has driven technical strategy and product launches at Canonical, Atlantis Computing, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems, combining hands-on engineering with customer-facing evangelism and trusted-advisor relationships. A recognized expert in automation and orchestration whose practices predate mainstream cloud, he helped engineer early hyper-converged and virtual desktop solutions and shifted Sun Ray into the Windows terminal market. Based in Henderson, Nevada, Craig blends deep technical craft with strong communication skills and a talent for building communities that accelerate product adoption. An unusual detail: his career began in casino systems engineering, where rapid promotions forged his operational rigor and customer-first approach.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Hotel Administration, BS, Hotel Administration at UNLV
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Github Skills (19)
lxd10
lxc10
packer-template10
expressions9
criu9
linux9
virtual-machine9
docker9
meta-tags9
favicon9
go8
packer8
tagging8
maas8
cloud-init8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/maas-commissioning-scripts
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
A repository of example MAAS commissioning scripts
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 1 month
canonical/ossa
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:120 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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