Craig Bennett

Craig Bennett

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Senior Director of Engineering at NerdWallet
Santa Barbara, California, United States

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  • NerdWallet
    Senior Director Of Engineering
    NerdWallet
    Mar 2022 - Current (4 years 4 months)
  • NerdWallet
    Director Of Engineering
    NerdWallet
    Nov 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 5 months)
    NerdWallet is on a mission to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. As Senior Director of the Core Engineering group, my organization provides the technology foundation to make that a reality. My eleven engineering teams provide AWS infrastructure tooling, production support, end user identity and access management (IAM), centralized financial product information, a distributed user data system, data warehousing, and common tooling to accelerate front-end development.
  • Amazon
    Software Development Manager III
    Amazon
    May 2017 - Nov 2020 (3 years 7 months)
    Alexa is the most intelligent cloud-based digital assistant in the world. My three development teams worked hard to make her even more brilliant. Together, my organization built world-class software for efficient knowledge graph data ingestion (ETL), knowledge graph administration, and production knowledge graph infrastructure (DevOps/SRE). In short, we built powerful tools to bring new data in, structure it into knowledge, and then serve that knowledge to millions of Alexa customers per day.
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    Software Engineering Lead
    Graphiq Inc.
    Jul 2016 - May 2017 (11 months)
    Graphiq was acquired by Amazon in May 2017. It takes a powerful set of tools to build and maintain the world's deepest knowledge graph. My role as a Lead Engineer on the Data Engineering team was to create those tools, producing a complete pipeline for the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data. Together, we created a diverse set of data services that encompassed everything from basic address parsing to complex machine learning models for entity matching and timeseries prediction.
  • Wyatt Technology
    Director of Software Engineering
    Wyatt Technology
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 2 months)
    I oversaw the development of four major workstation applications and a family of embedded instrument firmware. This portfolio included a diverse range of technologies, from low-level hardware control to high-level user interface design. Taken as a whole, these projects formed a complete end-to-end solution for the acquisition and analysis of laser light scattering data.
  • Wyatt Technology
    Software Development Manager
    Wyatt Technology
    May 2013 - Jun 2014 (1 year 2 months)
  • Wyatt Technology
    Senior Software Engineer, Firmware Development
    Wyatt Technology
    Feb 2012 - May 2013 (1 year 4 months)
    I built and maintained the embedded software for one dozen shipping scientific instruments and accessories. Using embedded versions of Windows as the base, we designed custom applications for data acquisition, data display, hardware control, and network communication. I completed a wide variety of projects as part of the firmware team, including low level hardware control improvements, creation of new hardware calibration algorithms, support for new data acquisition hardware, applications for remote control of instruments, and user interface improvements.
  • University of California Santa Barbara
    Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Neuroscience
    University of California Santa Barbara
    Apr 2008 - Feb 2012 (3 years 11 months)
    What makes each of us unique? While most research is focused on how groups of people use their brains in a similar way, the Miller Lab at UCSB focused on increasing our understanding of what makes each brain different. I conducted a variety of neuroimaging research projects investigating human decision making, memory retrieval, and the statistical analysis of fMRI data. I was responsible for project management, decisions involving data acquisition, and determining the appropriate statistical analysis for the data.
  • Dartmouth College
    Graduate Researcher, Cognitive Neuroscience
    Dartmouth College
    Sep 2003 - Apr 2008 (4 years 8 months)
    Why do teens make bad decisions? This was a focus of my research while at Dartmouth. By investigating normal adult decision making and then contrasting that against the decision making of adolescents we were able to significantly advance our understanding of human development. I used a wide variety of research methods in pursuit of this work, including behavioral, physiological, and neuroscience techniques. One particularly important family of tools was the use of structural, diffusion, and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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  • Dartmouth College
    PhD, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
    Dartmouth College
    Jan 2003 - Dec 2008 (6 years)
  • The University of Kansas
    BS, Cognitive Psychology
    The University of Kansas
    Jan 1998 - Dec 2003 (6 years)
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    fMRI reliability: influences of task and experimental design
    Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
    Dec 2013
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    How reliable are the results from functional magnetic resonance imaging?
    New York Academy of Sciences
    Jan 2010
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