# Craig Ambrose > Software Architect with Extensive Startup Experience Location: Saratoga, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/craigambrose I've written pretty much every kind of software there is from Token Ring drivers (really arcane) to eCommerce web applications (slightly less). I've done desktop apps for Macs and PCs and enterprise software sold into some of the largest companies in the world. You want scalability, you want performance, you want clever user interfaces on mobile devices, you want architecture in place for an entire engineering team. Not a problem. I've lead engineering teams both as a manager and a technical lead. But I truly enjoy rolling up my sleeves and getting code written. I enjoy the pace and the diversity that startups provide and have targeted startups for the last 18 years and would enjoy the opportunity to jump on the rocket one more time. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Nēsos Jan 2021 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States Responsible for backend and data engineering. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Earnin Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States I was an early-stage engineer building out some of the core functionality for the innovative fin-tech application. As the company grew, my responsibilities included starting and growing the CloudOps, DevOps, Data Engineering, and Microservice Infrastructure teams. I was responsible for common libraries and design reviews for the engineering organization. ### Founder, V.P. Engineering @ Hatch Networks Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Altos, California, United States Hatch was designed to provide social network capabilities to integrate with existing apps and communities. I designed and implemented the backend APIs and the web-based prototype ### Services Architect @ CloudCar™ Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Designed backend services to support integrated automotive device. Services include navigation and entertainment ### V.P. Engineering @ TastingRoom.com Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 | Los Altos, CA Responsible for design and implementation for an eCommerce web site selling innovative products for the wine industry. All facets of the eCommerce site were under my leadership including Content Management, Promotions, Searching/Indexing, SEO, SEM, Inventory Management, and Fulfillment Systems. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Dell Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Sunnyvale, CA ### Services Architect @ Zing Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View, CA Lead engineer and designer of a series of web services to support suite of mobile entertainment consumer devices (MP3 and video players). Integrated with 3rd party content (music, video) providers to provide rich set of capabilities (browse, purchase, download) to wirelessly connected hand-held devices. Service infrastructure was designed for millions of simultaneous users. The Service ran for more than 3 years with greater than 99.9% availability including monthly upgrades. ZING was acquired by Dell on August 10, 2007 ### Software Architect @ Sun Microsystems, Inc. Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 | San Jose, CA Principal architect for a download server for mobile devices. Designed and implemented an N-tier application using WebLogic and Sun One application servers to provide downloadable content, stocking, billing, and download services for large mobile tele-com operators. Architecture included performance for >10 million users on a clustered application server environment. Implementation included Oracle/JDBC, JMS, JSP, Struts, JMX, SNMP, XML/XSLT. Lots of hands-on coding. Pixo was acquired by Sun Microsystems on July 13, 2003 ### Senior Architect @ KANA Software Jan 1998 – Jan 2001 | Palo Alto, CA Technical lead for business development integrations. Responsible for interacting with partners designing integration points for joint product development. Project life-cycle was short for quick market impact. Implementations included Kana Response integrated with IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite v5.1, IBM Text Analyzer, Aspect Portal, others. Senior Architect reporting to CTO. Responsible for due diligence of acquisitions, researching new product areas, unifying architecture of acquired technologies, researching technical directions. Technologies include, SOAP, Web Services, UDDI, knowledge management, security, workflow, routing and queuing, Swing. Senior software engineer for Kana Response products. Designed and implemented web- based application using Java, EJB, JMS, ASP, JSP, Dynamic HTML, XML/XSL. Designed application for real-time interactions using the web, chat, and e-mail. ### Software Consultant @ WebTV Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 ### Software Consultant @ Apple Computer Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 ### Software Engineer @ Novell Jan 1991 – Jan 1995 ### Software Engineer/Analyst @ Ford Aerospace Jan 1987 – Jan 1989 ## Education ### BS in Computer Science University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cmambrose --- Source: https://flows.cv/craigambrose JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/craigambrose/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12