Craig Israel
Technical Co-founder at Sanctum Technology, Inc
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Israel is a technical co-founder and principal full-stack engineer with 13+ years building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and larger companies. He blends hands-on backend expertise in Ruby on Rails, Go, Node.js and Python with front-end work in React/Redux, and is experienced in event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis and Elasticsearch. Craig has repeatedly led architectural migrations, performance optimizations, and Kubernetes-based DevOps on AWS (Terraform/kops), often taking rescue projects from crisis to stability while mentoring teams along the way. He enjoys diving into low-level system debugging—he’s comfortable exploring Kubernetes internals or prototyping services in new languages to validate fit—and has a track record of improving observability, reliability and developer velocity. Based in Nashville, he also co-owns developer tooling and startup ventures, blending product-minded engineering with practical operational craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Recording Industry Management, Bachelor of Science (BS) Recording Industry Management at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
English
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Github Skills (15)
bunny8
chat-application8
chat-sdk7
rabbitmq7
chat6
stream6
api-client6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails5
daemons5
api5
sass5
css5
rails4
stream-chat4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
betterwithranch/daemon_objects
Sep 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 11 months
object-orientedapproachdaemonsruby
betterwithranch/dotfiles
Mar 2013 - Dec 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 9 years 10 months
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