Craig Watson
VP Of Product at Synthesia
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCraig Watson is a product leader and founder with 13+ years of experience building and scaling consumer and AI products, currently serving as VP of Product at Synthesia. He has founded and exited two startups (Soundwave acquired by Spotify; Retro Patents sold privately) and led major cross-functional programs at Spotify that influenced the company’s core revenue stream. Passionate about applying frontier AI models to real user problems, he co-founded Arro to bring qualitative research to scale and coaches product teams through his Product Buffs practice. His background as a qualified lawyer gives him a rare blend of commercial, IP and product judgement that shapes pragmatic decision-making. Based in the UK, he balances tech leadership with a hands-on, maker mindset—bass guitarist, Liverpool fan and longtime tech manager—bringing both creative energy and operational rigor to teams.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. (Dubl), M.A. (Dubl) at Trinity College DublinSolicitor Professional Practice Course, Solicitor Professional Practice Course at Law Society of Ireland
English, French
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Github Skills (158)
terraform10
infrastructure10
google-cloud10
terraform-module10
puppet10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
varnish10
tunneling10
consul-template10
graph10
proxy-server10
vmware-tools10
php-application10
terragrunt10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
craigwatson/hiera-eyaml-gkms
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Hiera EYAML plugin for Google Cloud KMS
Contributions:6 releases, 7 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 9 months
gcpcloud-kmsgoogle-cloud-kmshieraeyaml
craigwatson/puppet-vmwaretools
Nov 2012 - Jan 2020
Puppet module for non-OSP VMware Tools Installation
Contributions:242 commits, 15 PRs, 81 pushes in 7 years 4 months
vmware-toolspuppetpuppet-moduletools-installationinstallation
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