Craig Waters
Solutions Director at Pure Storage
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Waters is a seasoned solutions and product leader with nine years of focused experience in enterprise storage, virtualization and cloud infrastructure, now serving as Solutions Director at Pure Storage in Melbourne. He has progressed through technical and product leadership roles at Pure Storage—including Technical Director for Cisco & VMware FlashStack—and brings hands-on architecture experience from roles at Nutanix, consulting and senior engineering positions. A community builder and communicator, Craig founded a virtualization podcast and blog to raise APAC voices, led the Melbourne VMUG (winning the Presidents Award) and has driven events and developer engagement across the region. Known for translating complex infrastructure requirements into pragmatic product and go-to-market strategies, he combines deep technical fluency with customer-focused product management and a knack for growing ecosystems. An origin story that spans the UK, Australia and Silicon Valley reflects his global outlook and adaptability in fast-moving enterprise technology markets.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computing for Real Time Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computing for Real Time Systems at University of the West of England
Github Skills (8)
ucs8
adapter7
director7
zip6
smartthings4
iot-application4
python2
ifttt2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
purestorage-partnerconnect/ucs-director-plugin
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 2 years 9 months
end-to-endadapterdirectorzipucs
PureStorage-OpenConnect/SmartConfig
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
SmartConfig is a day 1 deployment tool used to automate the deployment of all the devices that make up a FlashStack.
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
smartthingspythondeploymentiftttday
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