Craig Yamato
CTO & Co-Founder at FermiHDI Ltd.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorCraig Yamato is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over two decades of experience building networked systems, cloud deployments, and IoT products for Fortune 1000s, carriers, and startups. He blends deep hands-on engineering—from low-level protocol and embedded device design to cloud-scale analytics and orchestration—with a proven track record in sales engineering and strategic customer relationships. As co-founder and CTO of FermiHDI he is focused on hyperscale data performance, while prior roles at Kentik, Big Switch, and Level 3 show repeated success designing large AWS and Azure deployments and converged networks spanning 500+ sites. He is comfortable managing IP development in-house while orchestrating distributed teams and turnkey manufacturing to accelerate productization. A two-time recipient of a peer-awarded NAO I.D.E.A. prize, Craig is known for creative, revenue-generating solutions that fit cleanly into ITIL/ISO lifecycles and real-world operations. Based in San Francisco, he combines carrier-grade networking depth with startup pragmatism and a knack for turning complex technical requirements into deployable, economical systems.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (26)
transport9
tcp9
docker8
ack8
ietf8
udp8
syslog7
reverse-proxy7
letsencrypt7
nodejs7
golang7
load-balancer7
proxy6
kubernetes6
traefik5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cyamato/chfagent-systemd
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
cyamato/SyslogPro
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
A NodeJS Syslog module with support for RFC3164, RFC5424, LEEF, and CEF formatted messages over UDP, TCP or TLS transport
Contributions:33 commits, 11 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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