Craig Tracey
Founder at Sixth Degree
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Tracey is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools, and high-scale SaaS platforms from early-stage teams to productized offerings. He led field engineering and pre/post-sales technical efforts at Heptio, authored Kubernetes management prototypes that influenced VMware Tanzu, and previously architected core cloud services at HubSpot and Blue Box that enabled successful acquisitions. Known for shipping pragmatic automation (from MySQL backup and deployment tooling to remote telemetry) and two open-source projects adopted into VMware, he blends hands-on systems programming with strategic product impact. Now based in Boston, he’s building SixDegree to tackle contextual bottlenecks around models—bringing a rare mix of kernel- and infra-level debugging chops plus founder-level execution to bridge complex distributed systems and product adoption.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Providence College
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Github Skills (7)
puppeteer10
package-management10
python10
puppet10
cloud-init10
rhel8
debian8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
craigtracey/omnibus-openstack
Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:51 commits in 7 months
craigtracey/jwksmiddleware
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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