Craig Walker
Product Advisor at Translucent
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Walker is a seasoned product and technology leader with 15+ years building mission-critical internet applications and scaling global teams across fintech and accounting software. He was a founding CTO at Xero where he led Payments, Billing & Automation for a 250+ person organization and later served as CPO at Versapay, driving product strategy, cross-functional alignment and a 40% faster professional services delivery. Now advising Digits and investing in fintech startups like Translucent and Upstock, Craig combines deep engineering roots with GTM and operator experience to commercialize AI-enabled accounting and payments products. He’s practical about outcomes—balancing customer-focused product roadmaps with revenue growth—and has a track record of turning platform-level technical ideas (e.g., single-instance frameworks at Viatx) into scalable SaaS businesses. Based in Chevy Chase, MD, he brings founder-level curiosity and a history of industry recognition, including NZ Hi-Tech Young Achiever of the Year.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Hutt CollegeBSc Information Science, BSc Information Science at Massey University
Github Skills (2)
nodejs9
javascript8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
storminwalker/node-extjs
Jun 2011 - Dec 2011
ExtJS4 Module for NodeJS
Contributions:21 commits in 5 months
javascriptnodejsnode
storminwalker/WDCNZ-2011
Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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