Craig Bennett
Senior Director Of Engineering at NerdWallet
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Bennett is a senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling platform, data, and cloud infrastructure for consumer-facing products. Currently Senior Director of Core Engineering at NerdWallet, he leads 101 engineers across 11 teams delivering AWS tooling, data warehousing, IAM, and shared platform services that enable product velocity. His background blends hands-on systems and embedded firmware engineering with data engineering and knowledge-graph tooling from roles at Amazon and Graphiq, giving him fluency across hardware, backend, and ML-assisted ETL pipelines. A former cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD, he brings a rigorous, research-driven approach to measuring team performance and decision-making, which informs his view that underperformance is rarely a technology problem alone. Craig is also pursuing an MBA at UCLA Anderson, signaling a continued emphasis on connecting technical strategy to business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Master of Business Administration (in progress), MBA, Master of Business Administration (in progress) at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementUniversity of KansasPhD, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, PhD, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (8)
swift2
merge1
pentaho1
macos1
pentaho-data-integration1
wwdc1
data-integration1
stream1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
prefrontal/nasr-data-parsing
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
prefrontal/project-euler
Jul 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:187 commits, 172 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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