Craig Barber

Software Engineer / Technical Lead • Google Cloud Platform

• Massive Scale Adoption: Architected and engineered the setup-gcloud GitHub Action, implementing robust versioning and test automation to ensure high reliability across 4B+ quarterly API requests from 170,000+ customer projects.
• Ecosystem Leadership: Defined the technical roadmap and led development for GCP’s official Jenkins integrations (GCE, GCS, GKE, GCR, OAuth), driving Jenkins to become the dominant build and test system on Google Compute Engine.
• Core Infrastructure: Led the system design and implementation of Bazel’s Build language indexer for Kythe, establishing the foundational backbone for Google’s internal Bazel code search and language semantic services.
• Technical Leadership: Served as Technical Lead for Cloud Graphite’s CI/CD GCP integrations team, influencing strategic external partner engagements (e.g., CloudBees) to secure participation in the GCP Anthos Partner program.

Software Engineer • Azure Security Forensics

• Security at Scale: Engineered an automated forensics extraction service for Azure VHDs, designing a scalable architecture that continually monitors 220,000+ active VMs to detect malicious use and mitigate fraudulent charges.

SWE Intern • Hardware Engineering Reliability

• Quality Assurance: Owned the end-to-end design and implementation of ETL pipelines for hardware reliability testing data, streamlining the manufacturing QA process for iPhones and MacBooks.